ActiveX Components (ActiveX Controls, COM Objects & OLE Objects) - New Releases

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.

421. InaUploadFile

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

Add file upload capability to your web site. InaUploadFile is a server-side component that you add to your Microsoft Internet Information Server to allow clients to transmit files via Active Server Pages. Once you receive the file from the client, InaUploadFile allows you to save them to disk, to a database, or another object that supports a stream, such as InaEmailSend.
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422. InaEmailSend

Publisher: Inabyte Primary Category: Email Product Type: Component / ActiveX DLL / DLL

Build an automated email system into your web application. InaEmailSend allows you to send email messages, such as notifications of new registrations and order confirmations to your web site customers. All that is required is that you set the values for TO, CC, BCC, Attachments, etc., then specify a valid SMTP server to handle delivery.
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423. InaCardCheck

Publisher: Inabyte Primary Category: Credit Card Authorization Product Type: Component / ActiveX DLL

Validate credit card numbers before sending for authorization. InaCardCheck uses recognized algorithms to verify that a submitted credit card number is valid, helping to prevent fraud and saving time and money by only sending validated cards for authorization. This MTS-enabled component can be used in either a distributed environment or on a web server. Supports American Express, BankCard, Cart Blanche, Delta, Diners Club, Discover, Enroute, JCB, Mastercard, Switch and Visa.
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424. THBRotatedLabel

Publisher: THBComponentware Primary Category: Web Site Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX / DLL

Rotate labels and pictures through 360 degrees. THBRotatedLabel is an ActiveX component that displays text and pictures with the ability to rotate them. Or you can create vertical text by writing top-down with horizontal letters. Useful to create vertical headings for columns in spread sheets. If you set the HyperlinkURL property you can use THBRotatedLabel as a Hyperlink control. If you click on the Label the browser opens and follows the URL you set.
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425. AFD BankFinder Internet

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Publisher: AFD Software Primary Category: Financial Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX / ActiveX DLL / DLL

Integrate rapid capture and validation of bank details to online web forms. AFD BankFinder Internet carries out sophisticated checks to ensure you get bank, account and credit/debit card details correctly - preventing costly bank errors and highlight potential fraud. Use it to insure that account numbers are valid for the bank branch stated, check the validity of credit/debit card numbers, and more. It will even integrate with call center, retail, accounting, and database systems.
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426. ALLText HT/Pro - OCX/VBX

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Publisher: Bennet-Tec Information Systems Primary Category: Text and Word Processing Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX / VBX

Display colorful, rich text in your form's text box. ALLText HT/Pro is a full formatted text box (rich text) that supports the display of multiple fonts, colors, paragraph formatting and even bitmap backgrounds. Add hypertext tags to any words or phrases, complete with automatic cursor changes, events on click, double-click, and mouse/cursor enter/leave. ALLText HT/Pro supports textboxes with images, merge fields, and even embedded OLE objects.
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427. Infragistics ActiveX Component Suite

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Publisher: Infragistics Primary Category: Product Suites Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX / VC++ Class Library

Build professional database front ends with this collection powerful components. ActiveX Component Suite is a collection of COM components featuring a variety of functionality including: Data Explorer - for creating Explorer-like file and folder data views, DataTable - for data bound grids, ScheduleX - for task management and calendaring capability, and TreeViewX - for viewing hierarchical datasets from OLE DB/ADO data sources.
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428. Aircraft Instruments

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Publisher: Global Majic Software Primary Category: Instrumentation Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX

Build detailed instrumentation displays for your aircraft simulation application. Aircraft Instruments displays 12 small aircraft flight instruments including air speed, altimeter, artificial horizon, automatic direction finder, climb rate indicator, compass, course indicator, heading indicator, horizontal situation indicator, omni-bearing indicator, radio magnetic indicator, and turn coordinator. It utilizes dynamic property pages and is self-registering.
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429. InaEmailCheck

Publisher: Inabyte Primary Category: Email Address Verification Product Type: Component / ActiveX DLL / DLL

Perform real-time validation of email addresses for authenticity. InaEmailCheck determines the validity of an email address by first checking the syntax, then the mail domain, mail servers, and finally the mailbox. Cut down on fraud by insuring that web site visitors register with accurate email information. InaEmailCheck is Internet-ready for use on an Internet Information Server and is also MTS-compliant, allowing it to be used in a distributed application environment.
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430. PowerTCP Web Enterprise for ActiveX

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

Communicate with servers using HTTP and HTTPS using a server-optimized tool. Perfect for client-side development and completely server-safe for ASP, PowerTCP Web Enterprise for ActiveX is a collection of ActiveX components and objects that include HTML parsing, resource collecting, and certificate management. Use it to fetch a complete web page with only one method call, provide control of security aspects of HTTP/S, support URL cracking to identify separate parts, and more. Secure connections fully supported highly customizable.
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