ActiveX Components (ActiveX Controls, COM Objects & OLE Objects) - Best Sellers

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.

411. Trace Route Wizard

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

Diagnose Internet congestion caused by slow routers and distance in hops to the server. Trace Route Wizard allows a programmer to trace the route a packet must take to get to any specified address (IP or FQDN). Fully ActiveX compliant, Trace Route Wizard also is setup to be used excellently in ASP scripted pages, or any ActiveX compliant scriptable languages. You also get an immense amount of information regarding each Hop and also supports multiple attempts per hop. It has the functionality of TracerT.exe.
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412. ToolTip Wizard

Publisher: Seekford Solutions Primary Category: ToolTips Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX

Make your application easier to use with ToolTips that really stand out. ToolTip Wizard makes it easy to add Tooltips that enhance your user interface as well as making your program easier to understand. With ToolTip Wizard your ToolTips can have the standard MessageBox icons, Bold Titles and multi-line text and can be displayed in a Balloon shape. This component works with any ActiveX container as well as ActiveX scriptable languages such as VBScript.
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413. SSL Socket Wizard

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

Add TCP socket communications plus SSL channel encryption to your applications. SSL Socket Wizard allows you to easily communicate to a remote server using the TCP protocol and also adds the ability to use Secure Socket Layer protection to the channel. With easy to use methods, very little network knowledge is needed. Event driven operation is also supported. Networks and the Internet are becoming not only a nice thing to have but are now a necessity and your applications need to be able to communicate over them.
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414. SNTP Wizard

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

Maintain exact time in your applications using the Simple Network Time Protocol. SNTP Wizard is an ActiveX component that uses special time servers which may be connected to atomic or radio frequency clock. The local computer can have its time set or just get a timestamp. It utilizes the SNTP Protocol in such a manner so that developers do not need to understand the underlying way that SNTP works. Multiple instances of SNTP wizard can be created to talk to multiple SNTP servers at a time.
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415. SMTP Wizard SSL

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

Give your applications the ability to send email. SMTP Wizard SSL is an ActiveX component that enables you to build a message, add files to it, and send it through a mail server. Your project can send out email notifications, error reports, customer responses, and much more. This control works with any ActiveX container and even works in ActiveX scriptable languages such as VBScript.
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416. Secure File Delete Wizard

Publisher: Seekford Solutions Primary Category: Security and Administration Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX / ActiveX DLL

Securely remove data files from disk. Secure File Delete Wizard is an ActiveX component that allows you to completely wipe a file or directories data from disk securely so that there is no chance of recovery. This allows for the safe destruction of data for privacy and security. Using Secure File Delete Wizard will allow you to give your customers peace of mind about deleting personal information that your application may store on disk. After wiping a file, the data is rendered unrecoverable by any known means.
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417. Resizer Wizard

Publisher: Seekford Solutions Primary Category: Resizing Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX

Add resize functionality to your application's forms. Resizer Wizard is an ActiveX component that provides robust resizing capability. Simply drop the control onto the form, and you instantly have the ability to resize all controls proportionally. Includes built-in support for Sheridan Tab control and also resizes properly with toolbars present. Exclusion properties give ultimate control over what gets changed.
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418. POP3 Wizard SSL  Average Review: based on 1 review

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

Add email functionality to your desktop and web applications. POP3 Wizard SSL provides full support for downloading mail from POP3 servers. You can download messages, just download headers, check how many messages you have without even downloading anything and much more. POP3 Wizard also has built-in support for decoding file attachments, getting HTML and Plaintext message bodies, headers and more. You can connect with SSL and also have the option of asynchronous operation. Simple and effective and comes with many examples for different languages.
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419. Ping Wizard

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

Add ping functionality to your applications. Ping Wizard is an ActiveX component that implements TCP/IP Ping functionality. It is fully compliant with scriptable languages such as for ASP for use in web applications, but is equally useful in desktop apps. Ping a server with minimal code. Use it to insure that a connection is working or to verify that a particular computer is online. Runtime royalty free.
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420. NNTP Wizard

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

Harness the power of the Network News Transfer Protocol. NNTP Wizard is an ActiveX control that gives a programmer the power to harness all that the Network News Transfer Protocol has to offer. With every standard command and almost all of the extended commands implemented in an easy to use and incredibly efficient manner, you can make your application as powerful as you want it to be in a relatively small amount of time.
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