For years the ActiveX WebBrowser control which is based on Internet Explorer (trident) has been used by a lot of applications as an embedded control.
By using Trident as an embedded browser control, it was possible to extend your application functionality with great success. Sadly Microsoft has declared the trident based control as legacy and is no longer continuing development for it.
Another control has come in its place, based on Chromium. It is called WebView2 and shares code with Microsoft Edge.
Microsoft provides bindings for a variety of languages and even added a com interface, but not all programming languages can directly consume that particular interface.
Microsoft declared that interface as being solely for C++ and refers to it as the Win32 interface whereas the other programming languages it is designed for are .net variants.
This is why Antwise Solutions developed an ActiveX wrapper for the WebView2 control so that it is easy to use from any language that is able to use ActiveX controls. Our ActiveX wrapper supplies a dual interface and has been tested with a variety of development platforms including: Visual Basic, Visual FoxPro, DataFlex and Microsoft Excel.
This control is called: “AntView”.
Antview is a product of Antwise Solutions that was introduced in August 2021 and has been improved upon since then.
With Antview you can use all the modern web technologies embedded in your application as long as your programming environment supports ActiveX controls.