ActiveX Components (ActiveX Controls, COM Objects & OLE Objects) - Top Downloads

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.

401. XF Designer

Publisher: Ecrion Software Primary Category: Text and Word Processing Product Type: Component / Application / .NET Class / .NET Web Service / ActiveX EXE / ActiveX DLL / DLL / VC++ Class Library / Java Class

Design your professional document templates. XF Designer2009 is a user-friendly, easy to learn document template editor with an advanced XSL-driven WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) interface. Although it looks and works just like a conventional word processor, the designer gives you much more flexibility to alter or reuse layout, by separating it from the underlying data. And because XF Designer is based on the same core engine as XF Rendering Server 2009 you can rest assured that the designed documents will match the expected output.
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402. XF Rendering Server

Publisher: Ecrion Software Primary Category: XML Product Type: Component / Application / .NET Class / .NET Web Service / ActiveX EXE / ActiveX DLL / DLL / VC++ Class Library / Java Class

Single source publishing to multiple formats. XF Rendering Server 2009 is a high-volume, high-speed solution for generating a wide range of communication materials from XML. It can process documents of any size and paginate content at a rate of thousands of pages per minute, making it one of the fastest XML formatters in the world. The Enterprise Edition adds support for multiple output formats including Postscript for direct printing, HTML for easy web publishing or Word 2003 for editing. It works on both 32 bit and 64 bit Windows and Linux platforms. The Enterprise Edition provides significant cost savings by eliminating the need to purchase additional software; it comes with an integrated charting engine and the ability to generate PDF/X and PDF/A compliant documents.
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403. ImagesInfo Barcode Generator

Publisher: ImagesInfo Primary Category: Barcodes Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX

Create high quality linear barcodes for your applications. ImagesInfo Barcode Generator is a software component for creating high resolution, print quality barcodes. With Barcode Generator, you can always get high quality linear barcode no matter the resolution of devices. It is designed for easy usage. You can use it in your application with your Visual Basic, Visual C++, Visual C#, and Delphi IDE. You may also develop applications with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access.
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404. THBImage Enterprise Edition

Publisher: THBComponentware Primary Category: Imaging Product Type: Component / .NET WinForms / ActiveX OCX / DLL

Add professional graphics capability to your applications. THBImage control allows you to add professional graphics capability to your applications. Features include a PreviewScrollWindow for scrolling, Popup menu to access all zooming functions and integrated printing capabilities allowing you to print images with a single statement. You can copy/paste images from/to the clipboard, draw smooth shaded color gradients. THBImage products include .NET, C#, VB.NET, ActiveX, COM and Dll versions. Buying a license or upgrade license includes 1 Year product specific support and download access to software updates.
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405. THBImage Professional

Publisher: THBComponentware Primary Category: Imaging Product Type: Component / .NET WinForms / ActiveX OCX / DLL

Add professional graphics capability to your applications. THBImage control allows you to add professional graphics capability to your applications. Features include a PreviewScrollWindow for scrolling, Popup menu to access all zooming functions and integrated printing capabilities allowing you to print images with a single statement. You can copy/paste images from/to the clipboard, draw smooth shaded color gradients. THBImage products include .NET, C#, VB.NET, ActiveX, COM and Dll versions. Buying a license or upgrade license includes 1 Year product specific support and download access to software updates.
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406. THBImage Standard Edition

Publisher: THBComponentware Primary Category: Imaging Product Type: Component / .NET WinForms / ActiveX OCX / DLL

Add professional graphics capability to your applications. THBImage control allows you to add professional graphics capability to your applications. Features include a PreviewScrollWindow for scrolling, Popup menu to access all zooming functions and integrated printing capabilities allowing you to print images with a single statement. You can copy/paste images from/to the clipboard, draw smooth shaded color gradients. THBImage products include .NET, C#, VB.NET, ActiveX, COM and Dll versions. Buying a license or upgrade license includes 1 Year product specific support and download access to software updates
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407. 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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408. THBResize

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

Support multiple screen resolutions by automatically resizing items on your form. THBResize is an ActiveX component that you can use to control the sizing and appearance of your applications. When you resize your for, all controls will change their size and position according to the form size. You can even limit the form size to a preset minimum and maximum resolution, preventing the user from making a form too small to display all controls, or so large that scarcely populated forms make the application look too bare.
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409. Query-A-Recordset

Publisher: SBS Development Primary Category: SQL Product Type: Component / ActiveX DLL / DLL

Execute SQL queries on ADO Recordsets as if they existed as Tables in a Database. Query-A-Recordset lets you perform SQL Joins between Recordsets or Group and Aggregate fields in a Recordset. You can perform full SQL queries on any ADO Recordsets and return the results to your application. No more complex filter and find routines. No more expensive round trips to the Server to obtain a subset of data that already exists.
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410. Seekford Solutions Platinum Subscription

Publisher: Seekford Solutions Primary Category: Product Suites Product Type: Component / .NET WinForms / .NET Class / 100% Managed Code / ActiveX OCX / ActiveX DLL

Collection of .NET and ActiveX components for internet communications. Seekford Solutions Platinum Subscription offers you the ability to use every ActiveX and .NET product they have available. You get free upgrades, revisions and any new products released while you have an active subscription. You also get free prioritized technical support. Each subscription lasts one year and is renewable.
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