Question

I have a simple WinForms app just one window with one WebBrowser control inside.
On vista this fails to show the date but works OK XP ?
The website runs activeX to show the date.

namespace WindowsFormsBrowserTest
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
            this.webBrowser1.Navigate("http://www.pcpitstop.com/testax.asp");
        }
    }
}

http://www.pcpitstop.com/testax.asp

Any clues would be really appreciated, should be simple but I have no idea.

Any security experts out there?

Answer 1

I have eventually sorted this issue out. One web page caused exceptions.

The application was hosting a web page running an activeX control.

Turned off Data Execution Prevention “DEP” for the application with a post build step.

All working fine now.