ActiveX is a Microsoft-proprietary framework for defining and accessing interfaces, to system resources, in a programming-language independent way.
ActiveX is a Microsoft-proprietary framework for defining and accessing interfaces to system resources, in a programming-language independent way.
It's used in many Microsoft Windows applications such as: internet-explorer, ms-office, visual-studio, and windows-media-player.
These applications also encapsulate their own functionality as ActiveX controls for other applications to use. Internet Explorer also allows embedding ActiveX controls onto web pages.
ActiveX is a successor to Microsoft's earlier com and ole technologies.
Projects, such as firebreath, facilitate developing plugins as both NPAPI plugins and ActiveX controls.
Other Related Tags: ocx, npapi
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