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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. 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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3. VSVIEW Reporting Edition

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

Create Microsoft® Access-style database reports for your Visual Basic, VC++, Delphi, and C++Builder applications. ComponentOne's VSVIEW Reporting Edition adds powerful, flexible database reporting to VSVIEW. It comes complete with preview, print, and export capabilities enabling reports on your computer or over the Web. Also available as VSVIEW Classic Edition.
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4. VSVIEW Classic Edition

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

Automatically format text for display and/or exporting. VSVIEW allows you to format text into multiple columns for table creation, including adding header, footers, text boxes, borders, and word wrapping. You can render pictures, embed RTF strings, and export to RTF or HTML. There is even a WYSIWYG preview that you can add to your applications, offering unlimited zoom, thumbnails, and side-by-side page previews. Users have full control over zooming and page orientation.
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5. List & Label Language Kits for Designer

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Publisher: combit Primary Category: Reporting Product Type: Component / Application / .NET WinForms / .NET Class / ActiveX OCX / DLL / VCL

Add multilingual capabilities to your List & Label Reports. The List & Label Designer language kits enhance the Designer with many languages that can be switched to when you need them. This makes your application fit for multilingual teams and international markets. Available for English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese and Russian. Localized help is included for English and German.
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6. List & Label Enterprise Edition

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Publisher: combit Primary Category: Reporting Product Type: Component / Application / .NET WinForms / .NET Class / ActiveX OCX / DLL / VCL

Report generator with report designer for software developers. List & Label makes it easy to enhance your applications by adding only a few lines of code to include all types of evaluations: reports, subreports, simple lists, multi-tables, crosstabs, charts, forms, labels, printing, preview, export and web reporting. The List & Label Report Designer is included in the Standard, Professional and Enterprise editions and allows you to quickly and easily enhance your application with powerful features. It can be passed on with most desktop applications without paying any further royalty fees. The Professional and Enterprise Editions include a subscription which gives you service packs, feature upgrades and upgrades to major versions, phone and email support for 1 year. The Enterprise Edition also includes runtime licenses for Server / Web Server applications and all available List & Label Language Kits for Designer.
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7. List & Label Professional Edition

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Publisher: combit Primary Category: Reporting Product Type: Component / Application / .NET WinForms / .NET Class / ActiveX OCX / DLL / VCL

Report generator with report designer for software developers. List & Label makes it easy to enhance your applications by adding only a few lines of code to include all types of evaluations: reports, subreports, simple lists, multi-tables, crosstabs, charts, forms, labels, printing, preview, export and web reporting. The List & Label Report Designer is included in the Standard, Professional and Enterprise editions and allows you to quickly and easily enhance your application with powerful features. It can be passed on with most desktop applications without paying any further royalty fees. The Professional and Enterprise Editions include a subscription which gives you service packs, feature upgrades and upgrades to major versions, phone and email support for 1 year. The Enterprise Edition also includes runtime licenses for Server / Web Server applications and all available List & Label Language Kits for Designer.
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8. List & Label Standard Edition

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Publisher: combit Primary Category: Reporting Product Type: Component / Application / .NET WinForms / .NET Class / ActiveX OCX / DLL / VCL

Report generator with report designer for software developers. List & Label makes it easy to enhance your applications by adding only a few lines of code to include all types of evaluations: reports, subreports, simple lists, multi-tables, crosstabs, charts, forms, labels, printing, preview, export and web reporting. The List & Label Report Designer is included in the Standard, Professional and Enterprise editions and allows you to quickly and easily enhance your application with powerful features. It can be passed on with most desktop applications without paying any further royalty fees. The Professional and Enterprise Editions include a subscription which gives you service packs, feature upgrades and upgrades to major versions, phone and email support for 1 year. The Enterprise Edition also includes runtime licenses for Server / Web Server applications and all available List & Label Language Kits for Designer.
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9. Crystal Reports Korean Version

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Publisher: SAP Korea Primary Category: Reporting Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX / DLL / VBX / VCL / VC++ Class Library

Crystal Reports 2008 is a powerful, dynamic, actionable reporting solution that helps you design, explore, visualize, and deliver reports via the web or embedded in enterprise applications. It enables end users to consume reports with stunning visualizations, conduct on-report business modeling, and execute decisions instantly from the report itself - reducing dependency on IT and developers.
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10. FinerEdge Publisher

Publisher: FinerEdge Software Primary Category: Reporting Product Type: Component / Application / ASP.NET WebForms / .NET WinForms / .NET Compact Framework / ActiveX OCX / DLL / VC++ Class Library / JavaBean / Java Class / JavaServer Faces (JSF)

Add dynamic publishing to your applications and drive costs out of manual document creation. FinerEdge Publisher allows you to drop dynamic publishing functionality into your applications for the automatic creation of customized and personalized product catalogs, reports, manuals, sales proposals, legal documents, and more by leveraging existing data resources and CSS/XHTML knowledge. Web-to-Print and Web based Report Writing functionality enables end-users to automatically create perfectly formatted print documents directly from their Web browsers. You can output to PDF, XPS, PostScript, RTF, HTML, XML, or application direct view and print. W3C and print industry compliant.
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1. ActiveReports 2 for ActiveX/COM Average Review: based on 8 reviews

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

2. ViewPro Average Review: based on 6 reviews

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

3. VSVIEW Reporting Edition

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

4. VSVIEW Classic Edition

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

5. List & Label Language Kits for Designer

Publisher: combit Primary Category: Reporting Product Type: Component / Application / .NET WinForms / .NET Class / ActiveX OCX / DLL / VCL

6. List & Label Enterprise Edition

Publisher: combit Primary Category: Reporting Product Type: Component / Application / .NET WinForms / .NET Class / ActiveX OCX / DLL / VCL

7. List & Label Professional Edition

Publisher: combit Primary Category: Reporting Product Type: Component / Application / .NET WinForms / .NET Class / ActiveX OCX / DLL / VCL

8. List & Label Standard Edition

Publisher: combit Primary Category: Reporting Product Type: Component / Application / .NET WinForms / .NET Class / ActiveX OCX / DLL / VCL

9. Crystal Reports Korean Version

Publisher: SAP Korea Primary Category: Reporting Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX / DLL / VBX / VCL / VC++ Class Library

10. FinerEdge Publisher

Publisher: FinerEdge Software Primary Category: Reporting Product Type: Component / Application / ASP.NET WebForms / .NET WinForms / .NET Compact Framework / ActiveX OCX / DLL / VC++ Class Library / JavaBean / Java Class / JavaServer Faces (JSF)

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