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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.

1. Desaware File Property Component

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Publisher: Desaware Primary Category: File Handling Product Type: Component / ActiveX DLL

Integrate file property management into your applications. The Desaware File Property Component allows you to read and write file properties that are part of Microsoft Office and other structured storage files, and files located on Windows 2000 NTFS drives. Use it to add properties to your own documents or for searching through files on a drive for certain attributes. Features the ability to read/write properties for MS Office files, other structured storage files, or any file on an NTFS partition.
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2. Xceed Encryption Library

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Publisher: Xceed Software Primary Category: Encryption Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX / ActiveX DLL

Add strong encryption and decryption capability to your Windows desktop and web applications. Xceed Encryption Library is an ActiveX component that supports the latest industry-standard strong encryption algorithms and offers both symmetrical and public-key cryptography. It allows you to encrypt or decrypt memory buffers, strings, blobs, streaming data or files. Does not depend on the Microsoft CryptoAPI.
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3. Xceed FTP Library

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

Add FTP capability to your Windows or web applications. Xceed FTP Library provides access to the complete functionality of the FTP protocol, giving your applications the ability to send and receive files, even across firewalls. This component supports long filenames, UNC paths, and unicode filenames, and also allows you to specify files using wildcards. Supports a variety of development languages including Visual Basic, Visual C++, Delphi, C++Builder and more.
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4. Xceed Ultimate Suite  Average Review: based on 1 review

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Publisher: Xceed Software  Primary Category: Product Suites  Product Type: Component / .NET Class / .NET WPF / Silverlight / .NET Compact Framework / 100% Managed Code / ActiveX OCX / ActiveX DLL / DLL

A Front-end and Back-end solution suite with many advanced UI controls and data manipulation libraries. Xceed Ultimate Suite offers both UI tools for application front-ends and data handling libraries for application back-ends providing high quality extensible controls including grids, charts, UI, Zip, FTP, and encryption as well as networking libraries. All Xceed Ultimate Suite .NET / Silverlight controls written in managed code, all ActiveX/COM controls (except SmartUI ActiveX) written in ATL 3.0 and supporting both the STA and MTA multi-threaded apartment models. No external dependencies. Xceed Ultimate Suite Blueprint Edition includes the fully commented C# source code to all the .NET and Silverlight components included in the Xceed Ultimate Suite.
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5. Xceed Zip Compression Library

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Publisher: Xceed Software Primary Category: Zip and Compression Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX / DLL

Create Zip files or compress/uncompress data in memory. Xceed Zip Compression Library is a high-performance Zip and Unzip data compression library that lets your applications create and manipulate 100% Zip-compatible Zip files as well as compress/uncompress data directly in memory. It's designed to offer the ultimate in flexibility and uses a fast multi-threaded zip compression engine.
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6. Xceed Zip for x64

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Publisher: Xceed Software Primary Category: Zip and Compression Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX / DLL

A High-performance, feature-rich ZIP/UNZIP component with AES encryption for the x86-64 architecture. Xceed Zip for x64 offers Zip, unzip, updating, converting, disk and memory streaming and more functionality to your 64 bit applications. Xceed Zip for x64 is a fully self-contained object, written with ATL 3.0 for no external dependencies. Xceed Zip for x64(64bit) advanced capabilities include non-blocking methods for background operation, wildcards that work even for folder names, renaming files in a zip file without unzipping then rezipping, etc. A version for the IA-64 ( 64-bit) processor architecture is also available. Xceed Zip for x64 functionality also includes no 4GB or file limit (Zip64), Deflate64, BZip2/BWT, filtering, split/spanned/self-extracting zip files, and much more.
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7. FileUp Standard  Average Review: based on 1 review

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

Upload files to an IIS Web server. SoftArtisans FileUp Standard Edition allows users with a Web browser to transfer files of any format from their local hard drive via HTTP to a Web server. Use SoftArtisans FileUp to receive and process user input while staying within the context of your Active Server Pages application. FileUp supports files up to 4 GB in size within ASP or ASP.NET with minimal server resources. FileUp also includes a download component which allows you to download files from the Web server to the user's browser with better security, but without complicated registry settings.
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8. PowerTCP Server for ActiveX

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Publisher: Dart Communications Primary Category: Internet Communication Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX

Enable rapid construction of custom server applications such as FTP servers, unique TCP servers, proxy servers, DNS servers, SMTP servers, and Flash servers. PowerTCP Server for ActiveX utilizes an NT service control to enable you to build server-side applications that will run as a service. Use it to establish Inter-Process Communications (IPC) between applications or applications that provide real-time monitoring. Includes sample projects for FTP server, Flash server, SMTP server, character generator, Discard server, and Echo server.
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9. 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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10. PowerTCP FTP for ActiveX  Average Review: based on 3 reviews

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Publisher: Dart Communications  Primary Category: File Transfer/Upload  Product Type: Component / ActiveX DLL

Copy files between your client and any FTP server. PowerTCP FTP for ActiveX can be used on either the client or the server to perform file transfers with only a single line of code. Options are set using simple properties and data files will even spool to memory. Directory lists are captured as objects, so parsing is eliminated. The PowerTCP FTP for ActiveX even includes an MGET method, to download multiple files - even an entire directory tree - with only a single line of code. Includes a .NET wrapper DLL, 9 VB.NET samples and .NET documentation.
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1. Desaware File Property Component

Publisher: Desaware Primary Category: File Handling Product Type: Component / ActiveX DLL

2. Xceed Encryption Library

Publisher: Xceed Software Primary Category: Encryption Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX / ActiveX DLL

3. Xceed FTP Library

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

4. Xceed Ultimate Suite Average Review: based on 1 review

Publisher: Xceed Software Primary Category: Product Suites Product Type: Component / .NET Class / .NET WPF / Silverlight / .NET Compact Framework / 100% Managed Code / ActiveX OCX / ActiveX DLL / DLL

5. Xceed Zip Compression Library

Publisher: Xceed Software Primary Category: Zip and Compression Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX / DLL

6. Xceed Zip for x64

Publisher: Xceed Software Primary Category: Zip and Compression Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX / DLL

7. FileUp Standard Average Review: based on 1 review

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

8. PowerTCP Server for ActiveX

Publisher: Dart Communications Primary Category: Internet Communication Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX

9. FileUp Professional Average Review: based on 1 review

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

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Publisher: Dart Communications Primary Category: File Transfer/Upload Product Type: Component / ActiveX DLL

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