What use are WinForms controls hosted in IE?

Chris Sells <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.windows.devel.dotnet.general
Organization Your Name Here
Message-ID <02ad01c2123d$232e3110$6401a8c0@bilbo> 
Since web pages are for reach to the least common denominator, what good are WinForms controls hosted in a web page? Not only do they require .NET to be installed on the client, throwing away the reach benefit, they need to be *fully* trusted to fire events, throwing away the sandbox that .NET provides for semi-trusted code. Or, if you stay semi-trusted and avoid firing events or communicating in any way with the hosting page, why be hosted in IE at all? Why not just deploy a WinForms EXE? I don't get it. Is it the ability to flow graphics and text?

Chris

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