Seeking an Alternative approach for ActiveX control accesses in Microsoft Edge Browser.

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BackyalakshmiArunbabu-9761 asked Dec 22, '20 Deepak-MSFT answered Dec 23, '20

Seeking an Alternative approach for ActiveX control accesses in Microsoft Edge Browser.

Hi,

ActiveX controls are used in our system to capture the Cheques through Scanning Machine in Our Application. This ActiveX controls will act as interface between application and Smart Source scanner.
As we all aware that IE support is going to stop in future, so our customer expecting our application should be compatibility with Microsoft Edge browser .
By default Edge web browsers do not support ActiveX controls, which is supported by Internet Explorer.

            So we are expecting a solution for the replacement of the ActiveX controls in Edge Browser.

Regards,
Backya

ms-edge

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Answer 1 · 2020-12-22T16:46:19.857Z

Reza-Ameri answered Dec 22, '20

Like you said ActiveX is no longer supported in Microsoft Edge and as backward compatibility you will need to use Internet Explorer.
It depends on your logic and how your application works, you may consider developing extensions instead or check whether you are able to implement your code using new web standards like HTML5.
I am not sure how your scanner works, but in case it required Camera, you could add code to permit it.
However, it is more like application, you may consider develop an application.

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Answer 2 · 2020-12-23T07:43:33.893Z

Deepak-MSFT answered Dec 23, '20

@BackyalakshmiArunbabu-9761,

The new Edge Chromium browser comes with the IE mode feature.

IE mode on Microsoft Edge makes it easy to use all of the sites your organization needs in a single browser. It uses the integrated Chromium engine for modern sites, and it uses the Trident MSHTML engine from Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) for legacy sites.

IE mode supports the ActiveX controls. So you do not need to find an alternative for your Activex control. You just need to configure the IE mode in the Edge Chromium browser.

Then you can use your legacy app in the Edge browser with the help of IE mode as you were using it in the IE browser.

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