[Question] WebBrowser and Excel integration in Windows Forms #6566
Description
- .NET Core Version:
.NET 6.0 - Visual Studio 2022
- Have you experienced this same bug with .NET Framework?:
No
Problem description:
Hi, I hope I'm not too much Off Topic.
In a .net 4.7.2 Windows Forms project a WebBrowser control was available. It's not available anymore in a .Net 6.0 project (but I saw some issues here in github mentioning it, so I'm a bit confused, too).
My goal is to use a WebBrowser control to embed a Microsoft Excel stylesheet (so that Excel results inside the Windows Forms application, to avoid context-switching for the end user).
I know this was possible in the past, but I was not able to find more info about the new .net core version. Do you have any plans in supporting this kind of scenario, or do you know an alternative? I can't reproduce this scenario with my pc because I have installed a newer version of Office (365, excel 16) that I was not able to make it work. It should be possible with previous version of Excel/Office (that is exactly my case).
Related to this I could think to re-use a UserControl built in .net 4.7.2 using the latest version and Visual Studio 2022.
Another option could be to open a generic exe-application inside a UserControl.
Could this be something supported from .net 6 & VS 2022?
Expected behavior:
I can use a WebBrowser and then embed Excel.
Minimal repro:
(https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/15760/How-to-Integrate-Excel-in-a-Windows-Form-Applicati)
requires to tweak some registry configs, based on:
(https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/ie/en-US/1fcabd6b-a2e1-4eee-8422-cd77da93ede3/office-2016-open-excel-files-in-ie-11?forum=excel)