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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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Unable to Execute Macro With ActiveX Controls (Excel VBA)

Problem: Users on different machines unable to execute VBA macro that works perfectly on my machine and the machines of others. Having issues with ActiveX form controls in MS Excel 2010 v.14.0.7015.1000 (32-bit). Using ActiveX Button and Text box I…
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Web Browser ActiveX login pop up translation

I'm using the Microsoft Web browser in a desktop application. When I'm hitting a website needing authetification I would like to "parametrize" the message of the login window. Is there a way od doing it? Regards
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Mark as safe for scripting activeX InternetExplorer object in access with VBA

I try to get the DOM from VBA with access. But I can't get the DOM. Dim objHTML As Object With IE .Navigate2 "http://myanimelist.net/animelist/Alaanor" WaitIE Set objHTML = .Document.body.innerHTML End With But I have read the…
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IPersistStorage prevents activex from being rendered in IE11

I have a ATL activeX object which contains a default implementation of the IPersistStorage interface. The activeX works fine in IE 8/9/10. But in IE 11 unless I comment out the following: ... //public…
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Udp Server on ActiveX Form

When I use TIdUDPServer on ActiveXForm, OnUDPRead event of the Udp Server does not trigger. If I check IdUDPServer.Active status, it's "true". But why OnUDPRead never triggered?
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Word forms with too many ActiveX checkboxes load slowly

my company's software product has a feature that allows users to generate forms from Word templates. The program auto fills some fields from the SQL database and the user can fill in other data that they desire. So we have a .dotx template that…
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Add to Trusted Site

What we did: We have created an activex which installs through the web browser into client machine What are the Problems facing now? We are trying to add the site in trusted site list Which we wrote the code in Activex. So while installing it adds…
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Pass parameter from page to ActiveX

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How to Connect an Activex Event to a Slot in python

I have an ActiveX control in a QAxWidget class and I am trying to connect an Activex Event to a Slot in python void MoveComplete (int ID) [signal] The documentation says QObject::connect(object, SIGNAL(MoveComplete(int)), receiver,…
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How can I sign an ActiveX control with a code signing certificate and be a verified publisher?

I'm trying to sign an ActiveX control with a code signing certificate issued by Thawte. I was able to successfully sign the control using signtool.exe. When I look at the file properties, it says "The certificate in the signature cannot be…
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WinForms ActiveX RDP Client Issue With NLA

I'm trying to make a WinForms RDP client in C# using the RDP ActiveX control as a bit of a learning exercise. I can get everything working when the target server doesn't use Network Level Authentication (NLA), but when I try and configure the…
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Read out Excel cell with mixed text color using Matlab

I have troubles to read out the font information of an Excel cell containing text of mixed color with Matlab using ActiveX. Take as an example an excel file with the string "GreenBlueRedBlack" in cell A1 with respective parts of the string in stated…
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Excel Active X Controls - Not Working Again - January 2015

MS Excel 2010 - Beginning of December MS sent out updates that killed Active X Controls. After several days of research found a solution and was able to recover. Now, again, 1st week of January 6, 2015, the same issue has reappeared. A little…
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Invisible ActiveX that takes a string

I need to adapt a simple function (let's say) int printText(string) written using an MFC library (this function prints the text on a particular printer whose driver lib is completely developed by MFC), to two applications developed the first in…
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using activex checkbox control in spreadsheet

I am using Excel 2013. I have an excel workbook. The workbook contains an activex checkbox control in the sheet 'charts'. The control is called chkAll. When the workbook is opened some default settings are applied one of which is to make this…
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