Web Forms Server Controls   Controls You Can Use on Web Forms   ASP.NET IE Web Controls

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To host and develop Web pages with the WebControls, Microsoft .NET Framework and the IE WebControls assembly must be installed on the hosting computer.

The .NET Framework SDK or Visual Studio .NET products install ASP.NET as a part of the setup process. The IE WebControls, though, does not ship with either of the products, and is available as a separate download.

To install the WebControls on the hosting computer, you need to download the Internet Explorer WebControls.

1. When you first run the install, the system prompts for where you want to save the files. The default is C:\Program Files\IE Web Controls\. You can simply accept or change the default directory.
2. After installation, a Readme.txt file appears with instructions on how to complete the install.

   NOTE: The build.bat file referred to in the instructions assumes you have Microsoft .NET 1.1 installed, and that the folder pointing to your .NET 1.1 installation, specifically to the compiler file csc.exe, is available from the environment registry. If not, the build will fail.

3. To ensure that the build.bat file runs as instructed, edit the file as follows.

   Change the call to csc.exe into
   
   C:\WINNT\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322\csc.exe
   
   or
   
   C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322\csc.exe
   
   depending on the location of your .NET 1.1 installation.

The installation process adds the Microsoft.Web.UI.WebControls.dll assembly to the global assembly cache.

If the install still fails for whatever reason,

1. Ensure that you have run build.bat, which will create a build folder that will contain the Microsoft.Web.UI.WebControls.dll file, and a Runtime directory of supporting files.
2. Ensure that the Microsoft.Web.UI.WebControls.dll file created in the build folder has been copied to your application’s /bin directory.
3. Ensure that the contents of the Runtime directory, which contains the scripts and images for the IE Webcontrols to render, has been copied to the webctrl_client\1_0 folder under your top-level site directory, which by default is the c:\inetpub\wwwroot folder of the hosting machine.

If the install is successful, see Authoring Web Forms with the WebControls, which briefly describes the common ground rules and recommendations that apply to all the WebControls.

Internet Explorer WebControls Overview   Authoring Web Forms with the WebControls