ActiveX
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ActiveX™ controls,
formerly known as OLE controls or OCX controls,
are components (or objects) you can insert into a Web page or other
application to reuse packaged functionality someone else programmed.
For example,
the ActiveX controls that are included with Microsoft®
Internet Explorer version 3.0 allow you to enhance your Web pages with
sophisticated formatting features and animation.
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A key advantage of ActiveX controls over Java™
applets and Netscape™
plug-ins is that ActiveX controls can also be used in
applications written in many programming languages,
including all of the Microsoft programming and database languages.
There are more than 1,000 ActiveX controls available today with
functionality ranging from a timer control
(which simply notifies its container at a particular time)
to full-featured spreadsheets and word processors.
If you can imagine it, you can do it with an ActiveX control.
You can add ActiveX controls to your Web pages by using the standard
HTML <OBJECT> tag.
The object tag includes a set of parameters that you use to specify
which data the control should use and to control the appearance and
behavior of the control.
Active X Tutorial
Quadzilla Archive
August 24, 2000
ActiveX controls are components that can
easily inserted into a Web page or other
application to reuse packaged
functionality someone else has
programmed.
ActiveX Demystified
If you use a computer, Microsoft's ActiveX is probably part of your
life. Whether you like it or not, the ActiveX technologies have become
an essential part of Microsoft applications and tools; they are even
finding their way into Microsoft operating systems. What impact is
ActiveX having? How does it affect the millions of Microsoft-oriented
developers and the tens of millions of Microsoft users? Answering these
questions first requires addressing another question, one that turns
out to be surprisingly hard to answer: Just what exactly is ActiveX?
ACTIVEX.COM
ACTIVEX.COM is a service from CNET: The Computer Network that features
the most comprehensive library of downloadable ActiveX
controls on the Internet. You can browse for and
download the best new ActiveX component software -- including freeware,
shareware, demos, fixes, patches, upgrades -- from the top vendor
sites on the Internet. ActiveX developers can also register to include
their controls in ACTIVEX.COM.
ActiveX Template Library
The ActiveX Template Library (ATL) was created to provide developers
with a convenient mechanism for building lightweight and fast COM
(Component Object Model) objects.
COM is the technical underpinning of all Microsoft ActiveX technologies.
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