Installing ActiveX-documents

[pafal]

Imagine the simplest HelloWorld app made out of ActiveX-documents and succesfully installed in a client.

If I add new functionality to my app, recompile, repack, redeploy, nothing changes when running the app.

How do I force IE to reinstall new versions of an ActiveX app without having to uninstall it manually from the "Winnt/Downloaded programs"-App/folder, (which BTW my target users don't have access of doing...)

[Lothar Haensler]

your OBJECT tag of your HTML page has hopefully a CODEBASE attribute with a version number.
When you update your AxDoc you should build a new cab file and set a new version number for the CODEBASE attribute. This should instruct IE to download and install the new version.

[pafal]

Thanx Lothar,

I tried that prior to asking this forum, but you pointing it out made me see it from a different angle.

If I change version-number in VB6, i.e. autoincrement, before compiling and packaging, voila, IE recognizes a new version and reinstalls.

Anyway, it won't help since IE keeps crashing when I install ActX-docs in my environment. Seattle in our hearts :-)

Regards

Patrik