What happens to our apps that use the WebBrowser ActiveX after MS removes IE11?

[pmjm1234]

Basically title. I have a lot of legacy apps that use embedded web browsers using the ActiveX control. I even have some custom UI controls that use the web browser control to render fancy buttons, lists and such.

Will these continue to work after June 15th 2022? What is the alternative if the user doesn't have IE installed?

Does anyone know if the "Microsoft Internet Transfer Control" is also affected by the removal of IE?

[Joe Caverly]

Internet Explorer 11 desktop app retirement FAQ
Ref: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/...q/ba-p/2366549

Joe

[pmjm1234]

So according to this, nothing happens and everything continues to work? Assuming I'm interpreting this correctly.

[Joe Caverly]

Using "How To Run Internet Explorer in Windows 11" as a reference;

Private Sub Form_Load()
  Dim ie11
  Set ie11 = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")
  ie11.Navigate "https://www.dostips.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=10413"
  ie11.Visible = True
  Unload Me
End Sub

Joe

[SmUX2k]

Worst case, if the legacy apps won't work in Windows 10+, you do need to bear in mind that VB6 is decades old now and is long past its retirement age (and, to be fair, HAS been retired a while back)...hasn't stopped people from using it, and there will be workarounds like installing older versions of the browser in order to force the required DLLs and such to be available to the system.

We're going nowhere, and nor is the IE support within VB6...as you said, everything continues to work, most likely.

The easy answer is to move up to a newer language like Visual Studio, but not everyone is capable of making that move...took me decades to get the hang of VB6 :-)

[baka]

if u have the source u can switch to a new method

https://www.vbforums.com/showthread....Edge-Chromium)