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

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.

171. PDFlib Personalization Server (PPS)

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Publisher: PDFlib Primary Category: PDF Creation Product Type: Component / .NET Class / Managed/Unmanaged Code - without COM / ActiveX DLL / DLL / Static Link Library / Java Servlet / Java Class

Generate PDFs on the fly. PDFlib is a development tool for PDF-enabling your software or generating PDFs on your server. PDFlib offers a simple-to-use API for programmatically creating PDF files from within your own server-side or client-side software. PDFlib doesn't make use of third-party software for generating PDFs, nor does it require any other tools. PDFlib+PDI can import existing PDF files. PDFlib Personalization Server (PPS) includes PDFlib+PDI, plus additional functions for automatically filling PDFlib blocks. PPS also includes the PDFlib Block Plugin for creating blocks interactively. PDFlib is available for all major operating environments and development environments.
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172. PDFlib

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Publisher: PDFlib Primary Category: PDF Creation Product Type: Component / .NET Class / Managed/Unmanaged Code - without COM / ActiveX DLL / DLL / JavaBean / Java Class

Generate PDF documents on-the-fly. PDFlib is a component that allows you to programmatically create PDF files from within your own server-side or client-side software. PDFlib doesn't make use of third-party software for generating PDFs, nor does it require any other tools. PDFlib is available for all major operating systems and development environments. It offers a variety of new and improved functions, including a new table formatter, PDF/A output for longtime archiving, AES encryption, integrated pCOS analyzing tools, a repair and optimization mode for input PDFs, and numerous other new features.
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173. VARCHART XGantt ActiveX

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Publisher: NETRONIC Software Primary Category: Planning / Scheduling Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX

Create applications that include interactive Gantt charts. VARCHART XGantt ActiveX is a graphical charting software component for visualizing business activities. It offers clear, concise and detailed process flows, identification, tracking, scheduling and allocation of tasks and resources over time. Give your customers the ability to edit their data quickly and easily, while at the same time controlling which fields can be changed and which are 'read-only'. VARCHART XGantt ActiveX may be used for in-house applications as well as for products or applications to be sold to third parties.
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174. TeeChart Pro ActiveX

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

Create high performance dashboards and charting solutions. TeeChart Pro ActiveX is a charting control for ActiveX aware programming environments such as Microsoft Office, Visual Studio's VB, VC++ and ASP, including Visual Studio.NET (VB.NET, C#). TeeChart ActiveX charting architecture and feature set has been built through years of interactive development with customers to create a charting component that offers an effective intuitive and timesaving programming interface. Steema TeeChart ActiveX Pro v2010 includes advanced features like create a Windows AVI standard video file from a Chart, playing videos (AVI,MPEG,DivX,etc) inside a Chart background, automatic map drawing, IsoSurface Series to draw a 3D surface mesh from a grid of XYZ points and many more. TeeChart ActiveX offers 25 Editor languages and is Unicode compliant for multi-characterset support, including double-byte languages, for true global application development. TeeChart ActiveX renders in most popular Graphics formats including JPEG, PNG and WMF/EMF and also generates Flex compiled code for on-the-fly Flash image generation, live with inline animations. TeeChart ActiveX also includes Gauges and Maps that can be used to create multi-task dashboards.
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175. CADMAI

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Publisher: CADMAI Software Primary Category: CAD Product Type: Component / Application / .NET WinForms / .NET Class / .NET WPF / Managed/Unmanaged Code - without COM / ActiveX OCX / DLL / VC++ Class Library

A comprehensive CAD framework. CADMAI is a CAD framework which can either be used as a standalone CAD application or as an integration module for 3rd party applications and SOA environments. CADMAI is a relational CAD system, which has its main focus in the parametric 2D and 3D design. CADMAI is associative, which means that not only are crosshatching / dimensions related to defined geometry but any other entities can be linked to each other. CADMAI is distributed as a stand alone CAD application including client server components for SOA environments. These end user applications have been created with the included API modules, which can also be used for creating individual applications with CAD functionality. CADMAI provides four API's which are each available in native C++ and .NET versions. In addition to that a CADMAI ActiveX and a .NET Control are available to enrich dialog based applications with CAD functionality.
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176. 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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177. PowerTCP ActiveX Suite Subscription

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

PowerTCP Subscription plans allow you to tailor your package to fit your needs. Designed for a single protocol or a bundle of requirements, each package comes with free updates, upgrades and email support for one full year. PowerTCP ActiveX Subscription includes: PowerTCP Emulation, FTP, Mail, Server, SSL, Telnet, Web Enterprise, WebServer, Winsock and Zip Compression.
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178. ResizeKit2

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Publisher: Newtone Primary Category: Resizing Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX / VCL

Make your applications size and resolution independent. ResizeKit is an ActiveX/VCL component that automatically changes the size of all controls and fonts so they will be displayed on any sized form. Full control is provided to customize the resizing process. Even if the user switches the size of the display while running an application, the ResizeKit will perceive the new size and automatically adjust the size of the components and fonts.
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179. List & Label Language Kits for Designer

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Publisher: combit Primary Category: Reporting Product Type: Component / Application / .NET WinForms / .NET Class / ActiveX OCX / DLL / VCL

Add multilingual capabilities to your List & Label Reports. The List & Label Designer language kits enhance the Designer with many languages that can be switched to when you need them. This makes your application fit for multilingual teams and international markets. Available for English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese and Russian. Localized help is included for English and German.
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180. List & Label Enterprise Edition

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Publisher: combit Primary Category: Reporting Product Type: Component / Application / .NET WinForms / .NET Class / ActiveX OCX / DLL / VCL

Report generator with report designer for software developers. List & Label makes it easy to enhance your applications by adding only a few lines of code to include all types of evaluations: reports, subreports, simple lists, multi-tables, crosstabs, charts, forms, labels, printing, preview, export and web reporting. The List & Label Report Designer is included in the Standard, Professional and Enterprise editions and allows you to quickly and easily enhance your application with powerful features. It can be passed on with most desktop applications without paying any further royalty fees. The Professional and Enterprise Editions include a subscription which gives you service packs, feature upgrades and upgrades to major versions, phone and email support for 1 year. The Enterprise Edition also includes runtime licenses for Server / Web Server applications and all available List & Label Language Kits for Designer.
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