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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.

Microsoft (Tools & Add-ins, Controls & Components)

The Microsoft software platform provides Microsoft developers with an array of Microsoft tools to create solutions for their customers and end users. The Microsoft applications that programmers develop can be created using the MS Visual Studio range of Microsoft development tools, including: MS Visual Basic; MS Visual C# (C-sharp); MS Visual C++ (C Plus Plus), as well as older MS dev languages and MS IDEs, such as MS Visual FoxPro. MS Visual Studio, the Microsoft .NET Framework and the more mature Microsoft COM platform can be extended to provide additional functionality to help MS developers create solutions faster. For example, there is a Microsoft add-in model that allows a Microsoft tool to be extended by other third-party companies, as long as they comply with the Microsoft addin model. As a result you can get a Microsoft extension for Visual Studio to refactor your Visual Basic code to make it easier to read or maintain and to speed up your coding by helping with code layout. Many Visual Studio add-ins are available, including add ins to do C# code generation for you, giving you a faster way to create an application from scratch.

Microsoft Visual Studio software can also be extended beyond the Microsoft controls and Microsoft components that are supplied within the Visual Studio Integrated Development Environment (VS IDE) to give additional functionality. You can get Microsoft .NET components from companies that specialize in writing Internet communications components or eCommerce components that can be programmed like any other Microsoft component and save you a vast amount of time and money in programming your next Microsoft project. Or you can get an advanced Microsoft control for charting that enables you to draw many more styles of charts and graphs than are available inside the standard Microsoft controls in Visual Studio. These Microsoft components are available in many different forms as: Microsoft DLLs or as a Microsoft library, or as a Microsoft ActiveX or COM component supporting the COM object model or for the .NET Framework as Microsoft WinForms controls or ASP.NET controls, or as Microsoft WPF controls for Windows Presentation Foundation applications or as Silverlight controls for Microsoft Silverlight developers to use.

In this Microsoft marketplace you will find lots of different MS UI controls, as well as non-visual components, Microsoft utilities and Microsoft plug-ins to help you program in Microsoft Visual Basic, Visual C++ & Visual C#. You will also find Microsoft visual tools written by ISVs that can be used by MS Access developers or by MS Office programmers as Office components to be embedded inside their MS VBA or VSTO apps. There are also SharePoint tools and SharePoint Web Parts for MOSS bases apps being created by SharePoint developers. Plus for SQL Server you will find Microsoft utility products that allow you to access or bind to your data sources, compare data, manage your data, backup your data efficiently and much more. There are over 1,800 commercial products compatible with Microsoft software shown here in this Microsoft product gallery and many come with free downloads or free software trials for you to use listed in our Microsoft downloads product pages.

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

Add flexible grids for display of tabular data. VSFlexGrid Pro is an upgrade to the MSFlexGrid that gives you a full range of features for building flexible, powerful front ends for database applications. Customize the display and presentation of dynamic data in your Windows, Internet or Intranet projects with a host of new ways to display, edit, format, organize, summarize, and print tabular data. VSFlexGrid 8 is now 64-bit compatible.
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2. True DBGrid Pro  Average Review: based on 4 reviews

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

Add powerful data bound grids to your application. True DBGrid Pro allows end users to browse, edit, add, and delete data in a tabular format. True DBGrid Pro completely manages the database interface, allowing developers to concentrate on important application-specific tasks. True DBGrid Pro can also be used in unbound or storage mode with a programmer's own data source. True DBGrid Pro allows end-users to browse, edit, add, and delete data in a tabular format. True DBGrid includes dozens of advanced data access, data presentation, and UI features.
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3. FarPoint Spread 8 COM  Average Review: based on 5 reviews

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

Add advanced spreadsheet functionality to your applications. Use FarPoint Spread 8 COM to easily incorporate advanced grid and high-level spreadsheet features into your applications. FarPoint Spread 8 COM offers unmatched flexibility at the cell level for maximum control over the display and entry of the data, plenty of events to respond to user changes and an impressive feature list for everything in between; including import/export capabilities, including the ability to import and export Excel 97, 2000 and Excel 2007 files (requires the .NET Framework). FarPoint Spread 8 COM also offers enhanced printing, many cell types, formulas, a 64bit DLL and many more features. FarPoint Spread 8 COM will allow you create a spreadsheet with up to 2 billion rows by 2 billion columns.
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4. Data Widgets  Average Review: based on 7 reviews

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Publisher: Infragistics  Primary Category: Datagrids  Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX

Include robust, data-bound components for accessing and displaying data. Data Widgets is a set of six bound ActiveX controls for Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 or higher and other ActiveX host environments. Data Widgets supports OLE DB and ADO data binding methods. Featured is the DataGrid, a fully editable data grid identical in look and feel to the Access grid. The DataGrid included in Data Widgets 3, SSDBGrid, allows updating, adding and deletion of records, along with unbound columns. SSDBGrid also supports Bound, Virtual and AddItem modes. Infragistics Data Widgets was formerly called Sheridan Data Widgets.
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5. UltraGrid

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Publisher: Infragistics Primary Category: Datagrids Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX

Add robust, fully customizable grids to effectively display data. UltraGrid is an advanced OLE DB grid component that gives developers complete control over individual user interface elements. UltraGrid rendering engine itself can be customized, and each onscreen element - from the dropdown button in a column header to the ellipsis in a cell - is accessible via the object model. As a data-bound grid, UltraGrid offers true hierarchical binding and allows concise display of complex data structures. Infragistics UltraGrid was formerly known as Sheridan UltraGrid or SSDBGrid.
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6. 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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7. Codejock Xtreme Report Control ActiveX  Average Review: based on 1 review

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Publisher: Codejock Software  Primary Category: Datagrids  Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX / ActiveX EXE / ActiveX DLL / DLL / VB Class Library / ActiveX Designer

Easily create, group and sort data in a flat or hierarchical format. Codejock Software’s Xtreme Report Control provides a sophisticated Outlook 2007 style Report Grid. Windows developers can easily create group and sort data in a flat or hierarchical format. All colors in the reports can be customized to match any existing application. You can display a hierarchical list of editable items such as email in your inbox. Intelligent grouping groups related data in an easy to read and logical layout. The group box allows column data to be displayed in any desired arrangement with a simple drag and drop. The report also supports Excel style features such as frozen columns, header rows and footers rows.
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8. Codejock Xtreme Report Control Visual C++ MFC

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Publisher: Codejock Software Primary Category: Datagrids Product Type: Component / DLL / VC++ Class Library / Static Link Library

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9. InaGrid

Publisher: Inabyte Primary Category: Datagrids Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX

Display data faster with an unbound grid. InaGrid provides a robust, highly customizable grid front end to virtually any data you provide. You have full control over color - background, foreground, text, etc. - cell alignment, cell contents - including the ability to embed an OCX into a cell for editing. InaGrid can support over 999 billion rows by 2 billion columns since it is virtual, and only requests the data when it needs it.
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