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.

51. TX Text Control ActiveX Professional  Average Review: based on 10 reviews

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Publisher: Text Control  Primary Category: Text and Word Processing  Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX / DLL

Give your application the ability to read, edit, and create documents in industry standard formats like MS Word DOCX, DOC, RTF, HTML and XML. TX Text Control ActiveX includes the ability to export all documents can be exported to print-ready Adobe PDF documents without any third-party software. The fully programmable component supports nested tables, document sections, images, text frames, drag and drop, headers and footers, bulleted and numbered lists and MS Word compatible mail merge fields for database applications. Typical applications include mail merge, PDF creation, document conversion or WYSIWYG word processing.
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52. Codejock Xtreme Skin Framework Bundle ActiveX

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

Create Microsoft Office and Ribbon style toolbars and menus with enhanced docking algorithms and completely skin every part of an application. Codejock Xtreme SkinFramework Bundle combines two of Codejock Software's most popular products, Xtreme CommandBars and Xtreme SkinFramework. Xtreme SkinFramework will completely skin every part of an application with today's most popular themes including Windows XP and Windows Vista themes. The Xtreme CommandBars provides Microsoft style toolbars, Ribbon bar, menus, pop-ups, tabbed MDI interface, status bar, and much more which can all be skinned using the Xtreme SkinFramework Bundle.
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53. Chart FX for COM

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

Enable your VB, C++ and ASP Application with state-of-the-art data visualization. Chart FX for COM includes Chart FX Internet and Chart FX Client Server. Chart FX for COM's Chart FX Internet addresses ASP developers' need for online data visualization and Chart FX for COM's Chart FX Client Server solves any COM desktop development charting requirements. Chart FX for COM's Chart FX Client Server provides advanced visual features, including anti-aliasing, smoothness, alpha-transparencies, gradients and more. Chart FX for COM's Chart FX Client Server includes components specifically designed for COM desktop development with IDEs such as VB6, Visual C++, Delphi, C++Builder, and even Access and Visual FoxPro.
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54. Codejock Xtreme Command Bars Visual C++ MFC

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

Provides Windows GUI engineers with all the components needed to create Microsoft Office XP style toolbars and menus with enhanced docking algorithms. Codejock Software's Xtreme CommandBars provides Windows developers with comprehensive, fully customizable menus and toolbars giving your application a professional and modern interface with sophisticated Office style command bars and One Note style MDI tab windows. The framework fully supports menu and toolbar customization to give you more control over your applications workspace. Xtreme CommandBars comes with built in theme support that will allow you to choose from predefined themes such as Office XP, Office 2003, Office 2007, Office 2010, Visual Studio .NET, Visual Studio 2005, or create your own custom theme.
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55. FaxMan

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Publisher: Data Techniques Primary Category: Facsimile / Fax Product Type: Component / .NET Class / 100% Managed Code / ActiveX OCX / DLL

Seamlessly embed fax support into your Windows applications. FaxMan is a programmable fax engine for providing fax sending and receiving capability with total control over the faxing process and the user interface. The developer kit includes an ActiveX OCX, DLL and managed .Net component interfaces to support virtually any Windows application, and automatically works with almost all Class 1, Class 2, and Class 2.0 faxmodems. Includes sample source code in Visual Basic, Visual C++, Visual Basic .NET and C#.
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56. activePDF Toolkit

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Publisher: activePDF Primary Category: PDF Creation Product Type: Component / .NET Class / ActiveX DLL

Manipulate PDF documents from within your applications. activePDF Toolkit is a .NET Ready ActiveX DLL that can append and extract PDF Pages, stamp text & images, PDF form filling, Stitching and more. activePDF Toolkit also offers PDF Encryption and Decryption. Both versions of activePDF Toolkit, activePDF Toolkit Standard and activePDF Toolkit Professional permit stamping, appending and form-filling of existing PDF files. activePDF Toolkit Professional includes support for stitching, text to pdf, linearization and encryption and decryption. Additionally, activePDF Toolkit Professional permits stamping and form filling with over 40 image types. If you don't require any of those features activePDF Toolkit Standard is recommended activePDF Tookit edition to buy.
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57. Button Objx

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Publisher: GrapeCity Primary Category: Button and Cursor Design Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX / DLL / VBX

Create fully customized active buttons and toolbars as well as custom-shaped containers. Button Objx is an ActiveX component designed to replace the Windows button component to create visually enhanced buttons. It allows you to dynamically change pictures and shapes, add multiple hotspots within a custom-shaped region, and more. Features include: IE or Netscape-style buttons, make buttons or individual cells transparent, 3D text characteristics, and much more.
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58. Solutions Schedule for COM  Average Review: based on 2 reviews

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Publisher: DBI Technologies  Primary Category: Planning / Scheduling  Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX

Manage resource scheduling and planning. Solutions Schedule for COM is a leading asset management and multi-resource scheduling component software for COM based IDE's. Solutions Schedule for COM includes built-in Gantt style drag-n-drop scheduling, Guide Line accuracy, TimeBar linking, conflict management, presentation styles like silverlight and more. Solutions Schedule for COM includes royalty-free distribution, sample applications in Visual Basic and Visual FoxPro, compiled executables with direct double click access to the property inspector at run-time. Solutions Schedule for COM includes one year of technical support.
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59. 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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60. Gantt Time Package ActiveX Edition  Average Review: based on 5 reviews

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Publisher: plexityHide.com  Primary Category: Planning / Scheduling  Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX / ActiveX DLL

Include sophisticated time management capability in your applications. The Gantt time package is a collection of user interface components which handles time blocks. The time blocks are displayed in a Gantt chart or a schema view. The times are connected to an owner, for example a person or an activity in a project. You can also use it to display dependencies and collisions between times, which gives the end user a graphical way to view and modify the project.
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