I am experiencing an issue with a local website (running on C:\foldername...) on a Surface Pro with Windows 8. This same application is running fine on other Windows 8 machines and on Windows 7 machines as well.
I am getting the "Automation server can't create object" which I've found all over the internet. The proposed solution was to set the site to a trusted site and change the security for active X to enable in security > trusted sites.
Problem #1 - I can't get it to add C:\... to trusted sites. And from what I've read, I shouldn't have to.
Problem #2 - If I change these setting for the "Internet zone" it actually works and doesn't give me that error! I'm not sure why C:\ would be in the internet zone, but it seems to be.
Problem #2b: With the setting described in #2 IE won't stop bugging me to change the settings back. Also, it isn't a very secure way to go about things.
Problem #2c: Also related to #2, I am getting a permission denied on XMLHTTPRequest to a web service set up on Localhost.
These all seem to relate to the fact that the web site is being run locally from the C:\