ed
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Need to make an add-in for a piece of software. The API for it is made for VB .NET and I need to be able to push data from computer to computer to do chat and a few other features. My idea is to use a WebBrowser form control to show various web pages which use node.js and socket.io. The question is, what browser does this control spawn - I'm assuming it's based on the version of IE that's installed on the computer. Is this right?
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Dom
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Is this a .NET web app? Because it seems a bit odd (well a bit backwards tbh) to use a WebBrowser control to load webpages that then push/pull with node.js/sockets; you could do all of it within .NET 
But you're right, it is based on the IE version installed on the client.
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ed
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Just been asked to put together a prototype. No idea of the best way to do it, but its an add-in for a piece of desktop software on Windows. Needs to work in the software at one end and a web browser at the other in an ideal world.
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Chris
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Are the computers on the same network, ie not using internet for comms.
You could look at stateless connection using UDP, other thing to think is multi bind to the one client, will this be able to serve all the client requests.
also http post request from client to website can look a virus so the scanner may kick in and block the exe
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ed
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It's for coms over the internet, it's basically a technical support add-in. The software already has similar stuff built in such as a little pane to view the support forums and people seem to have done similar things to distribute support videos and tutorials.
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