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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.

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Publisher: ComponentOne  Primary Category: Charting and Graphing  Product Type: Component / ActiveX DLL

Create and customize virtually any type of chart. ComponentOne Chart provides hundreds of properties and methods to create an unlimited variety of charts with variations of color, style annotations, and perspectives, including: Bar, Pie, Area, Line, Polar, Ribbon, Bubble, 3D Scatter, and many more. ComponentOne Chart supports data binding to any data source, allows you to use bitmap or metafiles as background images, and even supports exporting the charts in JPG and PNG formats. ComponentOne Chart ActiveX is 64-bit compatible.
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2. ComponentOne WebChart

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Publisher: ComponentOne Primary Category: Charting and Graphing Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX / ActiveX DLL / DLL

Create browser-independent, dynamic charts for Active Server Pages (ASP). ComponentOne WebChart is an enterprise charting tool that allows you to develop charts or graphs and serve them as JPEG or PNG files to any browser. You can also serve the charts as an ActiveX control to allow your end-users to change chart types and data values. True WebChart features two server-side charting components - one for 2D and one for 3D. The ASP web server performs the chart creation and sends the completed charts and graphs to the browser.
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3. Chart FX Internet

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Publisher: Software FX Primary Category: Charting and Graphing Product Type: Component / ActiveX DLL

Add interactive charts and images to your web application. Chart FX Internet gives you the ability to generate images with interactive image maps, drill-down capability, and other features that - generated on the server - will make the chart images fully interactive on the client-side. Chart FX Internet can create images in any standard image file format, or even send a bit-stream directly to the browser. Chart FX Internet is now part of Chart FX for COM.
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4. Nevron 3DChart

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Publisher: Nevron Primary Category: Charting and Graphing Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX

Create attractive 3D and 2D charts for client applications and web pages using COM or .NET technologies. 3DChart uses the OpenGL 3D graphics engine to create sophisticated 2D and 3D charts and graphs that can incorporate still or animated images. 3DChart includes a standalone application for chart template generation and an ASP server configuration utility. The component also includes a toolbar component specially designed to integrate with 3DChart. Complete HTML help system and examples in VB, VB7, C#, C++, IE, ASP, ASP .NET, Access, FoxPro, Power Point, Excel and Word.
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5. Graphics Server

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Publisher: Graphics Server Technologies Primary Category: Charting and Graphing Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX / DLL / VCL

Easily add graphs and charts to your applications. Graphics Server provides a rich, comprehensive, yet easy-to-use graphing and charting solution for Windows and Internet developers. Server licenses are never required. Implement in either a client-server environment or serve up stunning browser-independent graphs via the Internet. Other features include statistical functions, browser-independence, “drill down” graphs, broad image support, ADO data-binding, and comprehensive customization features. Please note: this product is no longer supported by Graphics Server. All support for this product will now be handled on a paid basis through a third party. Contact GraphicsServerSupport@gmail.com for details.
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6. TeeChart Pro ActiveX

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Publisher: Steema Software Primary Category: Charting and Graphing Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX

Create high performance dashboards and charting solutions. TeeChart Pro ActiveX is a charting control for ActiveX aware programming environments such as Microsoft Office, Visual Studio's VB, VC++ and ASP, including Visual Studio.NET (VB.NET, C#). TeeChart ActiveX charting architecture and feature set has been built through years of interactive development with customers to create a charting component that offers an effective intuitive and timesaving programming interface. Steema TeeChart ActiveX Pro v2010 includes advanced features like create a Windows AVI standard video file from a Chart, playing videos (AVI,MPEG,DivX,etc) inside a Chart background, automatic map drawing, IsoSurface Series to draw a 3D surface mesh from a grid of XYZ points and many more. TeeChart ActiveX offers 25 Editor languages and is Unicode compliant for multi-characterset support, including double-byte languages, for true global application development. TeeChart ActiveX renders in most popular Graphics formats including JPEG, PNG and WMF/EMF and also generates Flex compiled code for on-the-fly Flash image generation, live with inline animations. TeeChart ActiveX also includes Gauges and Maps that can be used to create multi-task dashboards.
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7. ProEssentials  Average Review: based on 2 reviews

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Publisher: GigaSoft  Primary Category: Charting and Graphing  Product Type: Component / ASP.NET WebForms / .NET WinForms / ActiveX OCX / DLL / VCL

Add financial, scientific, engineering and business charts to your applications. GigaSoft ProEssentials is a set of charting components for both Windows client-side and server-side development. GigaSoft ProEssentials includeds WinForm, WebForm, ActiveX, VCL, and DLL interfaces for five components: Graph, Scientific Graph, 3D Scientific Graph, Polar, and Pie Chart objects. GigaSoft ProEssentials comes with everything you need in one package to develop with Visual Studio. NET, VB6, VC6, ASP, ASP.NET, Delphi, Builder, and others, in a variety of interfaces best suited for your needs.
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Publisher: ComponentOne  Primary Category: Product Suites  Product Type: Component / ASP.NET WebForms / ASP.NET AJAX (ATLAS) / .NET WinForms / .NET Class / .NET WPF / Silverlight / 100% Managed Code / Managed/Unmanaged Code - without COM / ActiveX OCX / ActiveX DLL / DLL / AJAX

Add grid, reporting, charting, scheduling, data manipulation, user interface and more to your .NET, ASP.NET, Mobile Device, Windows Presentation Foundation and ActiveX applications. ComponentOne Studio Enterprise includes components from all ComponentOne Studio subscriptions offering you over 180 components for .NET, ASP.NET ( AJAX ready), WPF, Silverlight, ActiveX, and Mobile Devices. ComponentOne Studio Enterprise delivers the latest components, new releases, updates and upgrades, and email and online support for one full year from your date of purchase. ComponentOne Studio Enterprise 2011 adds support for .NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010.
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9. ComponentOne Ultimate

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Publisher: ComponentOne Primary Category: Product Suites Product Type: Component / Add-In / Application / ASP.NET WebForms / ASP.NET AJAX (ATLAS) / .NET WinForms / .NET Class / .NET WPF / Silverlight / Web Part / .NET LINQ Class / 100% Managed Code / Managed/Unmanaged Code - without COM / ActiveX OCX / ActiveX DLL / DLL / AJAX

Build line-of-business and data analysis applications. ComponentOne Ultimate includes all 9 of ComponentOne's Studios - ComponentOne Studio for WinForms, ComponentOne Studio for ASP.NET Wijmo, ComponentOne Studio for WPF, ComponentOne Studio for Silverlight, ComponentOne Studio for Windows Phone, ComponentOne Studio for iPhone, ComponentOne Studio for Compact Framework, ComponentOne Studio for SharePoint and ComponentOne Studio for Active X. It also includes ComponentOne Livelinq and ComponentOne's OLAP tools - ComponentOne OLAP for WinForms, ComponentOne OLAP for Silverlight and ComponentOne OLAP for LightSwitch as well as ComponentOne XapOptimizer, ComponentOne IntelliSpell and Doc-To-Help Enterprise. ComponentOne Ultimate includes datagrids, user interface controls, charting, reporting, scheduling and data manipulation components for .NET, ASP.NET, WPF, Silverlight, ActiveX and Mobile devices and development tools for analyzing data and increasing productivity. By purchasing ComponentOne Ultimate you will save thousands of dollars over buying the products individually.
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10. ComponentOne Studio for ActiveX

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Publisher: ComponentOne Primary Category: Product Suites Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX / ActiveX DLL / DLL

A suite of ComponentOne COM Technologies products including controls such as True DBGrid and VSFlexGrid. ComponentOne Studio for ActiveX currently includes: True DBGrid Pro, VSFlexGrid Pro, VSVIEW Classic Edition, VSVIEW Reporting, Chart, WebChart, Query, True DataControl, True DBInput Pro, True DBList Pro, SizerOne and VSSPELL. ComponentOne Studio for ActiveX includes any new ComponentOne COM Technologies component and updates released within your 1 year subscription period, plus email support.ComponentOne Platinum Support Subscriptions also provide a full year of Telephone and Online Technical Support. ComponentOne Studio for ActiveX also offers 64bit support for several products included in the suite. ComponentOne Studio for ActiveX is also available as part of the ComponentOne Studio Enterprise.
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Publisher: ComponentOne Primary Category: Charting and Graphing Product Type: Component / ActiveX DLL

2. ComponentOne WebChart

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Publisher: Graphics Server Technologies Primary Category: Charting and Graphing Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX / DLL / VCL

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