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ActiveX Components (ActiveX Controls, COM Objects & OLE Objects)

Microsoft first introduced the term ActiveX in 1996 when they launched a downloadable user interface control or software component that could be used by Internet Explorer to give more interactive or active content on a Web page to the reader. ActiveX controls were a re-branded subset of OLE custom controls (OCX) or OLE controls (OCXes) that were streamlined for downloading over the Internet and that could be digitally signed for security and authentication reasons. These ActiveX downloads were also tagged or marked as being safe for scripting and safe for initialization, to help give users confidence in using them in ActiveX Internet apps, as they were less likely to start making unauthorized actions on their systems. ActiveX controls also supported threading models, such as Apartment Model Threading, to try and improve performance in a multi-user or multi-process environment.

OLE controls (OCX's) or Object Linking and Embedding controls were themselves the successor to VBX controls first introduced by Microsoft to help programmers extend the functionality and features of their Visual Basic program by buying and reusing a VBX control built by another programmer or company, with expertise in a specific area. VBXes were limited to 16 bit usage for example on Windows 3.x, OCXes were available for both 16 bit or 32 bit architectures and began being widely used as people adopted Windows 95, although most people tended to use VBXes on 16-bit systems and OCX controls or OLE components on 32-bit systems for performance reasons. OLE itself was based on earlier work by Microsoft in their Office products to allow data to be exchanged and reused as objects inside other documents or files, such as embedding an Excel spreadsheet in a Word document and updating the content of that Excel spreadsheet for display using Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE). Hence the term OLE document, that is still in use today.

OLE was part of the Microsoft COM or Component Object Model, that enabled programmers to reuse software components and services in a logical and object oriented manner. COM was extended and expanded over the years to include DCOM, the Distributed Component Object Model that allowed programmers to call OLE objects or COM objects situated on other computers or servers. COM+ was added to support transaction services using technologies such as Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS) and this first appeared when Windows 2000 was launched to better support distributed transactions in more complex applications, where higher performance and throughput was required. COM has gradually become a common term used to refer to: COM, DCOM, COM+, OLE and ActiveX technologies in general.

ActiveX components can be created in a variety of object oriented programming languages, but are most commonly created using C++ and the Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC), such as: MFC 4.0, MFC 4.2 and MFC 6.0. When VB 5 was released in became possible for a Visual Basic programmer to create an ActiveX component for reuse by other people and whilst most programmers claim that the best ActiveX components were written in Visual C++ or by utilizing the ActiveX Template Library, it did not stop some entrepreneurial developers from Janus Systems writing one of the bestselling ActiveX UI controls of all time in VB5 and VB6, called Janus GridEx, a VB6 ActiveX, that gives the look and feel of the Microsoft Outlook UI inside your app.

ActiveX components and ActiveX controls come with a variety of file extensions such as: .exe, .dll and .ocx and these denote a certain type of usage either in-process as part of your program or app (an ActiveX DLL), or out-of-process as a standalone executable (an ActiveX Exe), as an ActiveX control or OCX control mainly used as a UI control on a form or page. Downloadable ActiveX controls are also packaged as .cab files or Cabinet files. These CAB files are packages of files compressed to take up less space and hence can be downloaded more efficiently over the Internet.

In this ActiveX Component gallery you will find a variety of commercial products that are ActiveX objects or ActiveX controls that people sometime refer to as VB controls or as a VB object, as they are often used within Visual Basic. You will find ActiveX Windows components that allow you to carry out visuals tasks, such as an ActiveX UI control for displaying video or images, an ActiveX image control or a non-Visual ActiveX upload component that will allow you to push a file up onto a server over the Internet using HTTP or FTP protocols.

21. IP Wizard Toolpack

Publisher: Seekford Solutions Primary Category: Internet Communication Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX / ActiveX DLL

Add Internet functionality to your applications. Internet Protocol Wizard Toolpack SSL gives you every Internet related control that Seekford Solutions make with a significant package saving. You get support for a lot of protocols and functionality. The included protocols are HTTP, NNTP, FTP, SMTP (email), POP3, PING, TRACEROUTE, SNTP (time), SSL TCP, DNS MX, MIME, Finger, WHOIS, and the following encodings: Base64, Quoted-Printable, yEnc, UUEncode, URL, MD5, SHA-1, and string binary to hex. A great value with a lot of power.
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22. IP*Works! ActiveX COM Edition

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Publisher: /n software Primary Category: Internet Communication Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX

Internet-enable your applications using ActiveX controls optimized for the Internet. /n software IP*Works! is a collection of components optimized for Internet communication. Functionality includes email, network management, FTP , telnet, and HTTP, and more. IP*Works! includes new higher level components such as Web Upload, WebForm, FileMailer, TraceRoute, and more. Includes sample ASP pages demonstrating how to access web services such as Yahoo Stock Quotes and UPS Address Verification.
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23. PowerTCP Server for ActiveX

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Publisher: Dart Communications Primary Category: Internet Communication Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX

Enable rapid construction of custom server applications such as FTP servers, unique TCP servers, proxy servers, DNS servers, SMTP servers, and Flash servers. PowerTCP Server for ActiveX utilizes an NT service control to enable you to build server-side applications that will run as a service. Use it to establish Inter-Process Communications (IPC) between applications or applications that provide real-time monitoring. Includes sample projects for FTP server, Flash server, SMTP server, character generator, Discard server, and Echo server.
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24. PowerTCP SSL for ActiveX

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Publisher: Dart Communications Primary Category: Internet Communication Product Type: Component / ActiveX DLL / DLL

Automatically authenticate and encrypt/decrypt data over the Internet. PowerTCP SSL for ActiveX integrates the Microsoft CryptoAPI, Security Support Provider Interface, and Winsock API to secure TCP/IP data using SSL2, SSL3, PCT, and TLS security protocols. Includes functionality for secure web access, FTP client and server, email (POP), TCP client and server, and more. Use it to build a secure eCommerce site or simply to securely transmit application data, such as files, over the Internet.
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25. SocketTools Subscription  Average Review: based on 1 review

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Publisher: Catalyst Development Corporation  Primary Category: Internet Communication  Product Type: Component / .NET Class / ActiveX OCX / DLL

A comprehensive collection of .NET, Library and ActiveX Internet communications components. SocketTools Subscription includes over 800 functions and 35 components covering uploading and downloading files (FTP), sending and retrieving email (SMTP, POP3), remote command execution, terminal emulation, and more. SocketTools Subscription also includes support for industry standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Security Layer (TLS) protocols which are used to ensure that data exchanged between the local system and a remote host is secure and encrypted. The secure libraries and components implement protocols such as HTTPS, FTPS, SMTPS, POP3S, IMAPS and more. Your data is protected by industrial strength 128-bit encryption, with full support for client certificates. Using the included SocketWrench component you can also write your own, custom secure server applications. And there's no need for you to understand the details of certificate management, data encryption or how the security protocols work.
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26. Xceed Data Manipulation Suite  Average Review: based on 1 review

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Publisher: Xceed Software  Primary Category: Product Suites  Product Type: Component / .NET WinForms / .NET Class / Silverlight / .NET Compact Framework / 100% Managed Code / ActiveX OCX / ActiveX DLL / DLL

A solution for your compression, encryption and networking needs. Xceed Data Manipulation Suite includes ActiveX, .NET and Silverlight components that will allow you to perform zip file manipulation, stream and data compression, secure FTP transfers, simultaneously multi-location file and folder synchronization, Tar, GZip, 256-bit AES strong encryption, RSA public key cryptography, hashing, self-extracting, binary to text encoding, scheduled backups and more. Xceed Upload for Silverlight, Xceed Real-Time Zip for Silverlight are also part of the Xceed Data Manipulation Suite. All .NET controls written in managed code, all ActiveX/COM controls written in ATL 3.0 and supporting both STA and MTA multi-threaded apartment models. No external dependencies . Xceed Data Manipulation Suite Vanguard price options include 1 year major/minor upgrades, free new products added to the suite, and priority support, the Blueprint Edition price options also include the fully commented C# source code to all the .NET and Silverlight components included in the Xceed Data Manipulation Suite.
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27. Xceed Ultimate Suite  Average Review: based on 1 review

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Publisher: Xceed Software  Primary Category: Product Suites  Product Type: Component / .NET Class / .NET WPF / Silverlight / .NET Compact Framework / 100% Managed Code / ActiveX OCX / ActiveX DLL / DLL

A Front-end and Back-end solution suite with many advanced UI controls and data manipulation libraries. Xceed Ultimate Suite offers both UI tools for application front-ends and data handling libraries for application back-ends providing high quality extensible controls including grids, charts, UI, Zip, FTP, and encryption as well as networking libraries. All Xceed Ultimate Suite .NET / Silverlight controls written in managed code, all ActiveX/COM controls (except SmartUI ActiveX) written in ATL 3.0 and supporting both the STA and MTA multi-threaded apartment models. No external dependencies. Xceed Ultimate Suite Blueprint Edition includes the fully commented C# source code to all the .NET and Silverlight components included in the Xceed Ultimate Suite.
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ActiveX Components (ActiveX Controls, COM Objects & OLE Objects)

21. IP Wizard Toolpack

Publisher: Seekford Solutions Primary Category: Internet Communication Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX / ActiveX DLL

22. IP*Works! ActiveX COM Edition

Publisher: /n software Primary Category: Internet Communication Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX

23. PowerTCP Server for ActiveX

Publisher: Dart Communications Primary Category: Internet Communication Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX

24. PowerTCP SSL for ActiveX

Publisher: Dart Communications Primary Category: Internet Communication Product Type: Component / ActiveX DLL / DLL

25. SocketTools Subscription Average Review: based on 1 review

Publisher: Catalyst Development Corporation Primary Category: Internet Communication Product Type: Component / .NET Class / ActiveX OCX / DLL

26. Xceed Data Manipulation Suite Average Review: based on 1 review

Publisher: Xceed Software Primary Category: Product Suites Product Type: Component / .NET WinForms / .NET Class / Silverlight / .NET Compact Framework / 100% Managed Code / ActiveX OCX / ActiveX DLL / DLL

27. Xceed Ultimate Suite Average Review: based on 1 review

Publisher: Xceed Software Primary Category: Product Suites Product Type: Component / .NET Class / .NET WPF / Silverlight / .NET Compact Framework / 100% Managed Code / ActiveX OCX / ActiveX DLL / DLL

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