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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: , , , and .
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 and technologies.

Projects, such as , facilitate developing plugins as both NPAPI plugins and ActiveX controls.

Other Related Tags: ,

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ActiveX control without a form

We are required to use a 3rd party ActiveX control. The only issue is, the layer in our software is a business layer and has no access to a window or form. It also runs on separate threads (and should work from any thread) that are not STA. Rather…
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How to handle an ActiveX event in Javascript

This is somewhat of a follow-up to an answer here. I have a custom ActiveX control that is raising an event ("ReceiveMessage" with a "msg" parameter) that needs to be handled by Javascript in the web browser. Historically we've been able to use the…
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Changing "active content" security settings on WPF WebBrowser control

I'm putting together a WPF application that will allow users to view PowerPoint files through the WebBrowser control, once the files have been saved as either .MHT or .HTML. The problem is that the files contain ActiveX controls, and the WebBrowser…
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Blocking dialogs in .NET WebBrowser control

I have a .NET 2.0 WebBrowser control used to navigate some pages with no user interaction (don't ask...long story). Because of the user-less nature of this application, I have set the WebBrowser control's ScriptErrorsSuppressed property to true,…
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Differences between Excel's Form Controls & ActiveX Controls

Why are there 2 types of controls available in Excel? (2 buttons, 2 combo boxes, 2 check box, etc...) What's the difference between Forms Controls and ActiveX Controls? Which one should I use? Some code samples I find online work with my…
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Can you create a HIPAA compliant Amazon S3 Web Application?

I am facing some questions when trying to design an S3 application using ASP.NET MVC and trying to stay HIPAA compliant. My initial plan was to require an SSL connection to my web server, encrypt the images on my server, then send them to s3 using…
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How can a web page read from the user's serial port - in the year 2017?

I have to re-implement an existing system from scratch. At one point, when the user navigates to a certain web page the server must read data from the user's serial port. Currently, the web page has an ActiveX control; when the page is loaded the…
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How do I detect if ActiveX is enabled in the browser of client?

How do I detect if ActiveX is enabled in the browser of client? I tried following code, but it's not working in Firefox. window.ActiveXObject not working in Firefox any ideas? check the example here: http://jsfiddle.net/qXSvQ/2/ I get false when I…
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Can I check to see if CoInitialize has been called or not?

In a multi-threaded environment with ADO database connections, I would like to know if CoInitialize has been called or not. How would I go about checking this?
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How to use IDispatch in plain C to call a COM object

I need to compile some code of mine using the gcc compiler included in the R tools (R the statistical program for windows), the problem is that I need to use IDispatch in my code to create an access the methods of a COM object, and the gcc compiler…
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ActiveXObject creation error " Automation server can't create object"

I have a very simple javascript code,