Support for Com Controls in Shared Hosting Services

[Uriah Piddle]

Hi,

For my ASP.NET 2.0 website, I found what looks like a really great freeware
text editor (XStandard: http://xstandard.com/default.asp) but it is a COM
component. I've never set up a website and I'm not sure I want to invest a
couple of days on this control and find out it is not supported. I talked to
someone at webhost4life and he said 'it shouldn't be a problem' and I don't
like the 'shouldn't' word. I'm just wondering: should I be worried about
this or do all the web hosting companies support third-party COM controls
like this as a matter of course?

The XStandard control is a text editor. One of the things I like about it is
that it does not give the user a whole slough of buttons so he can choose
any font, any color of the rainbow or format his text in thousands of ways.
It lets you define the formatting options and presents them in a combo box.
Pretty clever.

Thanks.

Steve

[bruce barker]

as the active/x control is installed on the client machine, not the
server you should be ok.

-- bruce (sqlwork.com)

Uriah Piddle wrote:

Hi,

For my ASP.NET 2.0 website, I found what looks like a really great freeware
text editor (XStandard: http://xstandard.com/default.asp) but it is a COM
component. I've never set up a website and I'm not sure I want to invest a
couple of days on this control and find out it is not supported. I talked to
someone at webhost4life and he said 'it shouldn't be a problem' and I don't
like the 'shouldn't' word. I'm just wondering: should I be worried about
this or do all the web hosting companies support third-party COM controls
like this as a matter of course?

The XStandard control is a text editor. One of the things I like about it is
that it does not give the user a whole slough of buttons so he can choose
any font, any color of the rainbow or format his text in thousands of ways.
It lets you define the formatting options and presents them in a combo box.
Pretty clever.

Thanks.

Steve