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.Net -vs- VB6 for Xtenders

Posted April 25th, 2007 by jstemper
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I'm new to iMIS and have been tasked with updating some existing xtenders that have been written in VB6.

I would like to do them in .Net.
My questions:

Is this possible?
Are there any examples floating around?
Is it the right route to go? (Ultimately the Xtenders will be replaced with ASP.Net pages.)

Thanks

John

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Xtenders

On April 25th, 2007 Bruce Wilson says:

Here's what I know so far:

  • Xtender is a COM-based technology.  The interaction with iMIS is based on ActiveX, and .NET does not allow you to build an ActiveX component.
  • Some have created a COM wrapper for a .NET application.  Very hard from what I hear, but theoretically possible.
  • You might be able to write an Xtender that uses .NET components in limited, non-visual ways.

I'm very interested in this topic as well.  I am hoping that the brave new world of iMIS 15 will offer some of the live interaction options we had with Xtender.  That, to me, is the biggest advantage Xtender has over other solutions. 

 -- Bruce

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In order to call custom

On May 24th, 2007 Balaji says:

In order to call custom application from iMIS you must use xtenders.

May be you could create a generic xtender window to hold web browser control. then you can pass the relevant URL to load your asp.net pages.

Balaji

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