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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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How do I develop browser plugins with cross-platform and cross-browser compatibility in mind?

My company currently has a product which relies on a custom, in-house ActiveX control. The technology it employs is itself cross-platform by design, but our solution is obviously limited to Internet Explorer on Windows. Long term we would like to…
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How to read web.config APP key settings in HTML markup

I have an ASP.NET site which uses a 3rd party activeX control. I have to pass a few parameters to the OBJECT tag in the HTML page. If i hardcode these parameters into the HTML everything works. I would like to place the parameters in my web.config…
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C# UDP Socket client and server

My first question here. I am new to this kind of programming, and i've only programmed .NET web sites and forms. Now, the company I work at, asks me to make an ActiveX component, that listens to UDP messages, and turns them into events. The UDP msgs…
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How to stop ActiveX objects automatically changing size in office?

This thread discusses a problem I've been having with ActiveX objects in an Excel spreadsheet. It's a mess to read through and ultimately doesn't have a cohesive answer. The problem is 100% reproduceable: Open workbook with ActiveX objects in…
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Create Custom ActiveX Controls for SAP B1

I am trying to create custom control for SAP b1 using ActiveX. I created Windows Forms Control Library Made Project Assembly Info COM-Visible (Project properties => Application => Assembly Information) Registerd for COM interop (Project properties…
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Deploy C# ActiveX in a CAB for Internet Explorer use

I am desperately trying to deploy an ActiveX for IE developed in C# as a CAB archive. I have read many resources (some of them from StackOverflow) and it appears a lot of people are having the same problems. I have tried 3 solutions: a) creating a…
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How do I resolve "Run-time error '429': ActiveX component can't create object"?

My company has a VB6 application using Crystal Reports 7 which a client has asked to be installed on Windows 7 32 bit. It is currently installed on Windows XP 32bit SP2 machines at the client. Connection to the DB is done via ODBC to SQL Server 2000…
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Need PDF viewer control - tried a lot

I'm looking for a component to view and print PDF files from Delphi/C++Builder. Delphi or ActiveX, not .NET. The license must be for royalty free distribution and the viewer must not require Adobe Reader to be installed. So far I have…
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How do I send Unicode text from MATLAB into a Word document via the ActiveX interface?

I'm using MATLAB to programmatically create a Microsoft Word document on Windows. In general this solution works fine, but it is having trouble with non-ASCII text. For example, take this code: wordApplication =…
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How can I delete (not disable) ActiveX add-ons in Internet Explorer (7 and 8 Beta 2)?

I'm developing a solution which uses an ActiveX control (a commercial one which we bought and that I did not develop). I need to develop the proper installation pages to simulate what happens when a user who has never visited the site and does not…
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Communicating with the OLE Server or ActiveX Control

MS Access 2010, Win 7 on a regular formI didn't intentionally place any ActiveX or OLE things.. not even sure what they are. But anyways, whenever I put something in the code of a particular form, it says "The Expression XXXXX you entered as the…
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Read and write to an access database using Javascript

first I want to mention that I am aware that in web interaction with databases should always be with server side languages due to security reasons and for the fact that javascript as is doesn't offer and compatibility with the windows file system. …
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How can one detect copying a link in a browser?

Yesterday I had a chat with a taxi driver and upon mentioning that I am a programmer, he told me that a couple of days earlier he had experienced the following: upon trying to copy the URL from the address bar of his browser, a messagebox appeared…
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How to compare BSTR against a string in c/c++?

wprintf(L"Selecting Audio Input Device: %s\n", varName.bstrVal); if(0 == strcmp(varName.bstrVal, "IP Camera [JPEG/MJPEG]"))... The above reports : error C2664: 'strcmp' : cannot convert parameter 1 from 'BSTR' to…
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ActiveX custom event cannot work on IE11

I upgraded my IE from version 10 to 11 and found that my ActiveX custom event couldn't work. The reason is that IE11 does not support attachEvent any more, and seems I have to use addEventListener. For example previously I…
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