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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.

Visual Studio (Tools & Add-ins, Controls & Components)

Microsoft Visual Studio (MS Visual Studio) allows Visual Studio programmers to create Windows applications for their end users fast. Visual Studio developers can extend the standard functionality available inside the Visual Studio IDE with a variety of Visual Studio add-ins and Visual Studio tools. The extensibility of Visual Studio software is one of the main reasons it has proved to be so popular with developers, as Visual Studio software engineers can find Visual Studio downloads from other companies or other developers to act as a Visual Studio extension to their Visual Studio IDE.

The versatility of Visual Studio also extends to various forms of Visual Studio software components. Visual Studio controls can be used to create feature rich Visual Studio user interfaces on forms and Web pages for Visual Studio apps. These Visual Studio UI controls are augmented by non-visual Visual Studio components or Visual Studio libraries that can help a developer add many hidden features in Visual Studio applications running in the background. These non-visual components are commonly available as a Visual C++ library, Visual C++ Class library, Visual Basic library, Visual Basic Class library or as a Visual Basic custom control or ActiveX/OCX component.

An example of a visual Visual Studio control is Janus GridEx, a Visual Basic UI control that allows you to create an MS Outlook style or look and feel to your latest Visual Basic project. A non-visual Visual Basic component example is a Visual Basic compatible product that allows you to create and output files in different formats, such as: PDF, XPS, PostScript, RTF, HTML, XML to help solve file conversion and document storage needs.

Other examples of a visual Visual Studio control is BCGControlBar Professional, a Visual C++ Class Library that allows you to create an MS Office Ribbon style or look and feel to your latest Visual C++ project. A non-visual Visual C++ Class Library component example is a Visual C++ compatible product call IP*Works! C++ Edition that allows you to send emails via SMTP and POP or to transfer files reliably using HTTP or FTP Internet protocols from within your Visual C++ program.

The Visual Studio software products listed in this Visual Studio product gallery will allow you to save a lot of time and effort in creating your new Visual Studio app. Whether you are looking for a Visual Studio plug-in or Visual Studio utility, or you are looking for a Visual Studio control or a Visual Studio component, you will be able to find a wide variety of Visual Studio tools to help you finish your project faster.

We also have other Visual Studio product galleries for: Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio .NET compatible products.

1. UltraToolBars

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Publisher: Infragistics Primary Category: Toolbar / Menu / Ribbon Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX

Create robust applications that emulate the look-and-feel of Microsoft Office 2000. UltraToolBars includes eleven interface-enhancing controls for creating customizable toolbars, including: personalized menus, flyout toolbars, integrated tab control, and more. PictureRegion technology enables forms and components to adopt virtually any shape. UltraToolBars includes a WYSIWYG designer and Image Editor allowing you to create and customize button images and toolbar design. Infragistics UltraToolBars is also known as Sheridan Protoview UltraToolbars.
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2. 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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3. Codejock Xtreme Command Bars ActiveX

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Publisher: Codejock Software Primary Category: Toolbar / Menu / Ribbon Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX / ActiveX EXE / ActiveX DLL / DLL / VB Class Library / ActiveX Designer

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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4. AceToolbar

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Publisher: HexaTech Primary Category: Toolbar / Menu / Ribbon Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX

Add customizable toolbars and menus to your applications. AceToolbar is an ActiveX component for creating a variety of active toolbars and menus that can emulate the look and feel of Internet Explorer CoolBar, Office 97 toolbars, and others. It can also be used as a versatile button control or serve as a transparent bitmap button control. Features include: arbitrary toolbar button shapes, support for MouseOver events, IE-style drop-down menus for toolbar buttons, and more.
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5. Codejock Xtreme Suite Pro  Average Review: based on 4 reviews

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

Give your application a professional, modern appearance with toolbars, menus, docking, property grid, reporting and calendar functionality. Codejock Xtreme SuitePro provides Windows developers with a sophisticated set of components to give your application a professional, modern appearance. Xtreme Suite Pro combines seven components, Xtreme Controls, Xtreme CommandBars, Xtreme Docking Pane, Xtreme Property Grid, Xtreme Report Control, Xtreme Chart Pro, Xtreme Calendar, Xtreme ShortcutBar, Xtreme SyntaxEdit, Xtreme Skinframework, and Xtreme Task Panel. With Xtreme Suite Pro you can create enterprise class applications that incorporate a full set of highly customizable user interface components that include Microsoft Office style toolbars and menus. Several popular visual styles are included such as Microsoft Office XP, Office 2003, Office 2007, Office 2010 and Visual Studio .NET.
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6. ComponentOne Studio Enterprise  Average Review: based on 9 reviews

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Publisher: ComponentOne  Primary Category: Product Suites  Product Type: Component / ASP.NET WebForms / ASP.NET AJAX (ATLAS) / .NET WinForms / .NET Class / .NET WPF / Silverlight / 100% Managed Code / Managed/Unmanaged Code - without COM / ActiveX OCX / ActiveX DLL / DLL / AJAX

Add grid, reporting, charting, scheduling, data manipulation, user interface and more to your .NET, ASP.NET, Mobile Device, Windows Presentation Foundation and ActiveX applications. ComponentOne Studio Enterprise includes components from all ComponentOne Studio subscriptions offering you over 180 components for .NET, ASP.NET ( AJAX ready), WPF, Silverlight, ActiveX, and Mobile Devices. ComponentOne Studio Enterprise delivers the latest components, new releases, updates and upgrades, and email and online support for one full year from your date of purchase. ComponentOne Studio Enterprise 2011 adds support for .NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010.
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7. 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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8. Designer Widgets  Average Review: based on 1 review

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Publisher: Infragistics  Primary Category: User Interface  Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX / VBX

Design enhanced user interfaces complete with rich toolbars and tabs. Designer Widgets is a collection of ActiveX components for VB that includes: Dockable Toolbar - to create floating toolbars of buttons that can be docked to the top, sides or bottom of your MDI form. The Notebook Tab Control - for notebook-style interfaces complete with "turning" pages and the ability to design customized notebook styles by varying the look and feel of the ring binder, the tabs style. The Index Tab Control - for a tabbed "index card"-like display allows you to present several screens' worth of data in the space of one screen. And FormFX - for total control over the appearance and behaviour of your forms. Infragistics Designer Widgets was formerly known as Sheridan Designer Widgets
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9. ComponentOne Studio for ActiveX

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Publisher: ComponentOne Primary Category: Product Suites Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX / ActiveX DLL / DLL

A suite of ComponentOne COM Technologies products including controls such as True DBGrid and VSFlexGrid. ComponentOne Studio for ActiveX currently includes: True DBGrid Pro, VSFlexGrid Pro, VSVIEW Classic Edition, VSVIEW Reporting, Chart, WebChart, Query, True DataControl, True DBInput Pro, True DBList Pro, SizerOne and VSSPELL. ComponentOne Studio for ActiveX includes any new ComponentOne COM Technologies component and updates released within your 1 year subscription period, plus email support.ComponentOne Platinum Support Subscriptions also provide a full year of Telephone and Online Technical Support. ComponentOne Studio for ActiveX also offers 64bit support for several products included in the suite. ComponentOne Studio for ActiveX is also available as part of the ComponentOne Studio Enterprise.
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10. ComponentOne Ultimate

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Publisher: ComponentOne Primary Category: Product Suites Product Type: Component / Add-In / Application / ASP.NET WebForms / ASP.NET AJAX (ATLAS) / .NET WinForms / .NET Class / .NET WPF / Silverlight / Web Part / .NET LINQ Class / 100% Managed Code / Managed/Unmanaged Code - without COM / ActiveX OCX / ActiveX DLL / DLL / AJAX

Build line-of-business and data analysis applications. ComponentOne Ultimate includes all 9 of ComponentOne's Studios - ComponentOne Studio for WinForms, ComponentOne Studio for ASP.NET Wijmo, ComponentOne Studio for WPF, ComponentOne Studio for Silverlight, ComponentOne Studio for Windows Phone, ComponentOne Studio for iPhone, ComponentOne Studio for Compact Framework, ComponentOne Studio for SharePoint and ComponentOne Studio for Active X. It also includes ComponentOne Livelinq and ComponentOne's OLAP tools - ComponentOne OLAP for WinForms, ComponentOne OLAP for Silverlight and ComponentOne OLAP for LightSwitch as well as ComponentOne XapOptimizer, ComponentOne IntelliSpell and Doc-To-Help Enterprise. ComponentOne Ultimate includes datagrids, user interface controls, charting, reporting, scheduling and data manipulation components for .NET, ASP.NET, WPF, Silverlight, ActiveX and Mobile devices and development tools for analyzing data and increasing productivity. By purchasing ComponentOne Ultimate you will save thousands of dollars over buying the products individually.
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1. UltraToolBars

Publisher: Infragistics Primary Category: Toolbar / Menu / Ribbon Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX

2. Codejock Xtreme Command Bars Visual C++ MFC

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

3. Codejock Xtreme Command Bars ActiveX

Publisher: Codejock Software Primary Category: Toolbar / Menu / Ribbon Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX / ActiveX EXE / ActiveX DLL / DLL / VB Class Library / ActiveX Designer

4. AceToolbar

Publisher: HexaTech Primary Category: Toolbar / Menu / Ribbon Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX

5. Codejock Xtreme Suite Pro Average Review: based on 4 reviews

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

6. ComponentOne Studio Enterprise Average Review: based on 9 reviews

Publisher: ComponentOne Primary Category: Product Suites Product Type: Component / ASP.NET WebForms / ASP.NET AJAX (ATLAS) / .NET WinForms / .NET Class / .NET WPF / Silverlight / 100% Managed Code / Managed/Unmanaged Code - without COM / ActiveX OCX / ActiveX DLL / DLL / AJAX

7. 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

8. Designer Widgets Average Review: based on 1 review

Publisher: Infragistics Primary Category: User Interface Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX / VBX

9. ComponentOne Studio for ActiveX

Publisher: ComponentOne Primary Category: Product Suites Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX / ActiveX DLL / DLL

10. ComponentOne Ultimate

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