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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.

1. ActiveReports 2 for ActiveX/COM  Average Review: based on 8 reviews

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Publisher: GrapeCity  Primary Category: Reporting  Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX / ActiveX DLL

Generate a wide variety of reports from your application. ActiveReports for ActiveX/COM is fully integrated into the Visual Basic programming environment and allows you to create rich reports without cryptic scripts or work-arounds. Features robust design-time environment including report wizard, support for DAO, ADO, and OLE DB, support for VB events, and more. Reports are compiled into your VB application for increased runtime performance.
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2. Studio Controls for COM

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Publisher: DBI Technologies Primary Category: Product Suites Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX / COM Add-in for Office 2000 / DLL / Windows Foundation Class (WFC)

Optimize the time from concept to solution. Studio Controls for COM includes 62 royalty-free ActiveX controls for Outlook style scheduling to snap-in Windows application design, data entry and presentation including components for intuitive UI design. Integrating standards based component software in project development advances the time to market while offering application development a whole new set of features at a fraction of the cost.
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3. FileUp Professional  Average Review: based on 1 review

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Publisher: SoftArtisans  Primary Category: File Transfer/Upload  Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX / ActiveX DLL / DLL

Use server and client-side controls for optimal file upload and download performance. SoftArtisans FileUp Professional Edition is an HTTP file transfer bundle that adds flexible file management and an ActiveX control to the dependability of FileUp Standard Edition. FileUp Professional will enhance your applications and help overcome inefficiencies with browsers that aren't fully compliant with RFC1867 (Form-based File Upload in HTML). It includes server-side and client-side components for performing uploads and downloads. The server-side component is a COM object that will run in IIS.
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4. Janus GridEX  Average Review: based on 20 reviews

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Publisher: Janus Systems  Primary Category: Datagrids  Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX

Add versatile data-bound or unbound grids to your applications. Janus GridEX 2000 is a grid component that allows you to build a user interface similar to Microsoft Outlook, complete with tabs, button bars, tool tips, and more. Create effective user interfaces with the ability to dynamically load and save entire grid layouts to disk or from a server on the Internet. The Outlook style grid has built-in multi-lingual sorting capabilities, and supports data binding via either Data Access Objects (DAO V3.6) or ActiveX Data Objects (ADO V2.x). The Janus Button Bar 1.6d is included in the Janus GridEX 2000b.
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5. AddFlow  Average Review: based on 7 reviews

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Publisher: Lassalle Technologies  Primary Category: Flow Diagramming  Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX

Create interactive flowcharts and workflow diagrams. AddFlow is an ActiveX component that is useful each time you need to display and use relationships between objects in your application. Drawings can be made interactively or programmatically. Features include distinct shapes, styles, pictures, colors, fonts, user data, and so on for each object of the diagram, metafile support, serialization, printing, zooming, custom shapes, link autorouting, customization and more. Runtime Royalty free.
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6. IP*Works! SSL ActiveX COM Edition  Average Review: based on 2 reviews

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

ActiveX Controls optimized for Internet security. /n software IP*Works! SSL Internet Toolkit provides secure web browsing, secure client, secure server, secure mail, digital certificate management, and more. Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is the industry standard for providing secure communications over the Internet. /n software IP*Works! SSL brings this security to your application.
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7. Gantt Time Package ActiveX Edition  Average Review: based on 5 reviews

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Publisher: plexityHide.com  Primary Category: Planning / Scheduling  Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX / ActiveX DLL

Include sophisticated time management capability in your applications. The Gantt time package is a collection of user interface components which handles time blocks. The time blocks are displayed in a Gantt chart or a schema view. The times are connected to an owner, for example a person or an activity in a project. You can also use it to display dependencies and collisions between times, which gives the end user a graphical way to view and modify the project.
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8. ViewPro  Average Review: based on 6 reviews

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Publisher: HexaTech  Primary Category: Reporting  Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX

Build sophisticated runtime reports or technical drawings. ViewPro is a dynamic report generator for building reports or drawings that are difficult or impossible to achieve with a static report writer. It lets you place tables, graphs, pictures, and drawings onto text report pages, and allows you to visually or programmatically edit or modify reports that have been already generated at runtime. This allows you to generate reports that are unknown until being customized at runtime.
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9. Instrumentation ActiveX Library

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Publisher: Global Majic Software Primary Category: Instrumentation Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX

Provide visual gauges for technical applications. Instrumentation ActiveX Library is a suite of 11 common instrumentation interface controls including Angular Gauge, Knob, LED, Linear Gauge, Numeric LED, Odometer, Percent, Selector Knob, Slider, Strip Chart, and Toggle. Each component gives you full control over instrument properties including scales, captions, tics, etc.
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10. Strip Chart

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Publisher: Global Majic Software Primary Category: Instrumentation Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX

Perform dynamic, two-dimensional charting. Strip Chart is an ActiveX component that provides an interface for one or more streams of realtime data or as a static two-dimensional charting tool. Use it to replace or enhance the plotting utility that comes with Excel. Other possible uses include: Factory Trending or Feedback, Vertical Plotting or Drilling Operations, Static Plotting, Virtual Oscilloscope, and more.
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