Using a 32bit webbrowser control in a 64 bit application

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Hi All,

I am working on an application which uses a .Net webbrowser control in a form to render flash contents. The 32bit application (built with x86 option) works fine (loads the flash content fine) on Win7 32bit OS.

However if I run the same 64bit version of the same application (built with x64 option), the flash doesn't load and shows as message "You need to upgrade your Adobe Flash Player...".

The reason for this (as far as I understand) is the non-availability of 64-bit flash player. I downloaded the 64-bit flash player 11 beta from Adobe website and the 64bit application worked fine. But I don't want to use this beta version.

Is it that, 64bit webbrowser control is used by the 64bit application (built with x64 option) and 32bit webbrowser control is used by the 32bit application (built with x86 option)? If yes, then can I explicitly use 32bit webbrowser control in my 64bit application (built with x64 option) so that it uses the 32bit flash player? Is it possible? I don't know how to explicitly create a 32bit webbrowser control within 64bit application. Any pointers for this?
Please correct me if I am wrong.

One option or workaround is to use the 32bit flash player and 32bit application on 64bit OS. But I want to use the 64bit application on 64bit OS but running with 32bit webbrowser control which uses 32bit flash player.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Posted 3-Aug-11 2:41am

HalliHaida

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Shameel · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-03T04:23:00

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I don't think you can make a 32-bit WebBrowser control work without problems in a 64-bit application. Remember that 64-bit Windows 7 contains two versions of IE: 32-bit IE and 64-bit IE.

Posted 3-Aug-11 4:23am

Shameel

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 3-Aug-11 14:51pm

You think correctly, my 5. Please see my solution where I make more certain and general statement about this matter.
--SA

[no name] 3-Aug-11 14:53pm

Thanks.

kathirsbe 22-Jan-18 1:03am

how to run the web browser control in windows7
i have creating the code for retrive the data from database and write the html code to webbrowser control its works fine in windows xp and its not work for windows 7

[no name] 10-Aug-11 5:16am

Hello HalliHaida, did you intend to vote 5 instead of 1?

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 10-Aug-11 15:27pm

Just in case, I checked up my vote, it's correct :-)
Chances are, somebody simply dislikes both our answers on this page :-)
--SA

[no name] 10-Aug-11 15:31pm

Thanks, I think some troll did it.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-03T08:50:00

Mixing instruction-set architecture in one process is absolutely impossible. What's worse, you could compile a .NET assembly referencing an assembly with incompatible target, but it will crash during run time. You could only implement different processes and use IPC between them — not an option with controls.

—SA