You know there is a web browser control in visual basic controls.
When we are using Auth2 for get into Google Apps(Gdrive,GPlay...) it opens a webpage in OS default browser(Chrome , Fire fox...) to get permissions. How can I make it to request from a web browser control on the form without opening other browsers?
The Google .Net client library is designed to open the users default browser for authentication.
The client library does not have the functionality to give you the url you would need to open it in a web browser control.
Sorry this is not possible
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I am developing a web add-in and I open the Azure AD authentication window in a popup. However, I need to close this popup as soon as authentication is done. I am redirecting the user to another page where I have placed the javascript code to close the window. The code works fine in Chrome on Windows, Mac, also Outlook on Mac. However the code does not work on Outlook for Windows.
Is there any solution in javascript to close the browser window for any browser version and platform?
To avoid trouble with authentication across different browsers use the displayDialog API to complete the authentication workflow. This will allow you to close the dialog once the authentication is completed.
I was already using Firebase for authentication for other (related) projects and would like to stick with it.
Using Firebase with a Word add-in seems challenging. On Windows you're stuck with IE11 and on Mac (crucial for me) the browser used to load a taskpane is webkit, not the default browser.
I can get authentication on Windows to work just fine if I use signInWithRedirect (Google and Facebook).
But this won't work on Mac. Using signInWithRedirect opens a new tab in the default browser, which doesn't share cookies/data with the webkit browser the add-in actually uses.
When I switch to signInWithPopup, I get:
There is no application set to open the URL about:invalid%23zClosurez.
On Windows I get a popup IE11 window, for a split second, and it contains about:invalid%23zClosurez for a URL.
I have appdomains called out in my add-in XML manifest:
<AppDomains>
<AppDomain>https://writeitwithme-a114a.firebaseapp.com</AppDomain>
<AppDomain>https://www.firebaseapp.com</AppDomain>
<AppDomain>https://www.googleapis.com</AppDomain>
<AppDomain>https://www.facebook.com</AppDomain>
</AppDomains>
Any help appreciated. Worst case I drop to using manual registration, via Firebase, for Mac, but seems unfortunate to have to give up.
Just documenting for anyone finding this later.
I couldn't figure out how to use Firebase social login when creating an add-in for Mac. Every authentication window opened in the default browser, not the webkit engine used by Word on Mac. Sticking with manual login worked.
IE11 is always finicky when using localhost. I test elsewhere, then push files live and then try IE11 and social + manual login (via popup) works just fine.
I found the following resources from Microsoft docs that made this easier for me:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev/add-ins/develop/dialog-api-in-office-add-ins
Basically you need to make a call to open up a dialogue box:
Office
.context
.UI
.displayDialogAsync(
'https://myDomain/myDialog.html',
{height: 30, width: 20, displayInIframe: true}
);
Then you can make your own page that does a login flow and passes a message (likely a credential of some kind) back to your plugin via the messageParent method:
Office.context.ui.messageParent(googleProfile);
From there you can do the following to sign in with the credential provided in your add-in:
firebase.auth().signInWithCredential(credential)
Also, be very careful with how you construct the URL of the dialogue box. I lost hours not knowing that the _host_Info param from the origin URL would mess stuff up (I was constructing my new URL from the origin URL). Figured it out in this github issue: https://github.com/OfficeDev/office-js/issues/378
When I use the Web Browser control with VB.NET and navigated to a site it said 'outdated Web Browser'. When I use Internet Explorer the site loads fine. I thought the Web Browser control used the latest version of Internet Explorer installed on the machine? I really need this site to load with the Web Browser control so I can manipulate it and use API functions. Is there some advanced Web Browser control I can use that will work better?
By default webbrowser control uses IE 7 if the version of the IE in that machine is IE7 or above. Please check your site in IE7 browser.
I launch IE with the "nomerge" option while testing our web applications, when I need to login as two different users at the same time. I would like to know if the same option is available with the .NET web browser control? (or for that matter with other web browser controls such as geckofx or webkitsharp) I want to launch two web browser controls inside the same winforms test application and be able to login as two different users.
I have a facebook iframe app I'm trying to test using a WebBrowser Control on a form in VB.NET 2010. Whenever I try to access the WebBrowser.Document.Window.Frames frame object on a document where my app is showing in the broswer, I get an Access Denined exception. Reading around on the web, I see people saying that this is to keep scripts in a document from accessing content in iframes that are pulling content from another domain, as per 'http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms533028.aspx', for security reasons.
While I totally understand why this is done for the general public, how can I disable it on my machine so that I can run these tests? I can't properly test my app without doing it in the facebook iframe and using the WebBrowser control is the only way I know to do this test programmatically.
Any ideas? I'm on windows server 2003 and ie8, .net4.0, if that helps. I own the domain where the app is, and its in AS.NET MVC2, so if there's anything I can do to the web code to enable this??? I also removed the Internet Explorer ENhanced Security COnfiguaration component, but that didn't help.
Thanks,
Philip
Have you tried changing your Internet Explorer settings to enable cross domain scripting?
I believe the VB.Net Web Browser control inherits settings from the local copy of IE.
Try this:
From Internet Explorer, choose Internet Options from the Tools menu.
On the Security tab of the Internet Options dialog box, select the Local Intranet Web Content Zone and then click Custom Level.
Locate the Miscellaneous/Access Data Sources Across Domains setting, and then select Enable, as shown in Figure 2.
Click OK, and then click Yes to the warning dialog box that appears.
Click OK to close the Internet Options dialog box.
Also try adding the Facebook https Url into your trusted sites.
As a last resort disable Native XMLHttp in IE and attempt to revert back to an older version of the XMLHttp object.