How to create Outlook Application Object using Javascript in Firefox Browser(Or Any Browser apart from IE)?
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Friday, May 04, 2012 4:34 AM
HI,
I am Suneel. I am working on developing Outlook addin. I had a requirement where I have to Open Outllok Appoinment from the web browser. I am able to this by using Activex Object. But to my surprise I can see that it only works in IE. I am getting a run time error while creating Activex Object in other browsers like Firefox, chrome etc.,
can anyone please tell me the alternative for creating Outlook application object in firefox?
Thank you,
suneel
Suneel
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Friday, May 04, 2012 4:00 PM This really doesn't have anything to do with VSTO addins, but where is your code running on those other browsers? It has to run at client, not on the Web.Otherwise there shouldn't be much of a difference for those other browsers as long as they can work with ActiveX objects. Can they?
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http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm"Suneel Kumar Vanapalli" <=?utf-8?B?U3VuZWVsIEt1bWFyIFZhbmFwYWxsaQ==?=> wrote in message news:3e2bb51d-d61e-46ca-b5c1-6114aa5b596b...HI,
I am Suneel. I am working on developing Outlook addin. I had a requirement where I have to Open Outllok Appoinment from the web browser. I am able to this by using Activex Object. But to my surprise I can see that it only works in IE. I am getting a run time error while creating Activex Object in other browsers like Firefox, chrome etc.,
can anyone please tell me the alternative for creating Outlook application object in firefox?
Thank you,
suneel
Suneel
Ken Slovak MVP - Outlook- Proposed As Answer by Ed Price - MSFTMicrosoft Employee, Owner Thursday, May 10, 2012 2:20 AM
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Friday, May 04, 2012 4:43 PMeither find out if other browser has some plug-in that allows to run activex inside them or look at what supported there scripting languages support in term of local system bindings.
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Friday, May 04, 2012 4:59 PM
Can't do that - FF does not support AX controls or COM object out of the box.
There are some FF extensions that allow to use AX controls in FF, but I don't think there is anything publicly available that woudlallow your Java script to access any COM objects.
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