The MS ActiveX doesn't use the VB runtimes as far as I know. I would assume they wrote it using ATL or MFC.

The MS Internet activex control is good for displaying web pages, you could also use the DHTML control but that might actually be more overhead.

>Hi all
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>I have a need to display web pahes fron the internet in my VFP forms.
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>I know how to do this using the ACTIVEX supplied by MS, but being an activex it is just a wrapper for the DLL's and also I have to endure the un necessary overhead of the VB runtimes loading, or does it NOT need VB runtimes?
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>Am I correct in my assumptions so far?
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>The app will be run under terminal services (RDP Win2k) so I need its memory and resource footprint to be as small as possible. I have already implemented web pages using the ACTIVEX control.
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>Is there some other way by calling the DLL's directly that I can instantiate a IE object in my forms?
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>Remember that Create("internet.Application") will not do as the session needs to be embedded in my form.
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>Thanks
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>Bernard