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by Jaruzel 1463 days ago
If one is desperate, there is also the option of the classic Webview control in Visual Studio (or even the old VB6 version) which with little bit of UI added around it, can substitute for the real IE for certain enterprise legacy webapps.

A bit more effort, can also lock the control to only browse to the intended web service, and launch the default browser for any external links.

There's kind of a market for this type of solution in the legacy enterprise app space I think.
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omnibrain 1463 days ago
You can even use a registry key (per Application using the WebView control) to specify the function level/version to emulate.
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Zardoz84 1463 days ago
these WebView on VB6 isn't the IE6 engine ?
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Jaruzel 1463 days ago
No it's a wrapper around the installed version of IE.

As a sibling comment stated, you use the registry to tell the WebView what version of IE you want to emulate (on a per app basis).

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