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Add financial, scientific, engineering and business charts to your applications.

Graph Types - Includes many different chart types: Line, Bar, Point/Scatter, Area, Points plus Best-Fit-Curve, Spline, High-Low Line, High-Low Bar, High-Low-Close, Open-High-Low-Close, Box Plot/Candlestick, Bubble and Step.

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Spread COM

Add advanced spreadsheet functionality to your COM applications.

Create, open, edit, and save Excel files with full programmatic control
Includes calculation engine with built-in formulas, or create your own custom formulas
Works in bound, unbound, and mixed mode for powerful spreadsheet authoring

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TX Text Control ActiveX Professional

Read, edit, and create documents in HTML and Microsoft Word formats.

Includes tables, object linking and embedding, database access, bulleted and numbered lists, and more.
Allows you to drag and drop text directly from other applications.

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SocketTools Library Edition

Internet communication functionality for apps, Web pages and scripts

Supports FTP upload/download, sending and retrieving email, remote command execution, terminal emulation and more
SSH component for secure interactive terminal sessions

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PowerTCP Server for ActiveX

Create custom TCP or FTP servers for any application.

Includes: FTP server, TCP server, mail server, DNS server and NT Service ActiveX controls
Supports COM+ Component Services

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PDF Xpansion SDK - HTML to PDF Converter

Convert an HTML file or complete HTML file structures to PDF

Works for single files or complete HTML structures including images and subfolders
Convert local HTML files or online web sites
Provides flexibility in selecting which elements of the HTML file or structure to include

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Codejock Task Panel Visual C++ MFC

Create Office style and Windows Explorer style task panels.

Drag and drop makes organizing task panel items quick and easy
Available behaviors include Windows Explorer, List Box, and Tool Box
Includes Office and Visual Studio Theme Support, Toolbox Layout and Drag and Drop

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Codejock Docking Pane ActiveX

Create enhanced Visual Studio.NET style docking windows.

Fully customizable docking panes provide a professional interface
Create tear-off tabs and auto hide windows to manage your workspace
Visual Studio and Office Theme Support

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Codejock Docking Pane Visual C++ MFC

Create enhanced Visual Studio.NET style docking windows.

Fully customizable docking panes provide a professional interface
Create tear-off tabs and auto hide windows to manage your workspace
Visual Studio and Office Theme Support

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Desaware Universal .NET

All of Desaware's .NET components, with full source code.

All products now fully compatible with Windows Vista
NEW SpyWorks V8.0 features improved handling of Windows hooks, particularly with regard to recovery from application crashes

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Components

Software components and controls are pre-built software libraries that you can use in your application to add new functionality. By adding functionality written by experts, you are not only saving time and effort but also adding high quality features to your application - fast.

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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.

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Release Notes: New Features.NET The OdbcDataProvider now supports a custom ParameterMarkerFormat. Use it to override or correct the format available from the driver's DatabaseInformationSchema. The syntax for data source parameters now supports passing Read more Show more results from this product
Release Notes: Web Report Designer New chart types: With bar, line, and area charts, the Web Report Designer offers a range of new options for data visualization. Enhanced export options: Further export options such as PDF version, image quality, endless Excel pages, ... Read more
Release Notes: Adds support for Embarcadero RAD Studio 11.3 and new chart types in the Web Report Designer..NET All available NuGet packages now have a special Enterprise package and ID to ensure that the packages are all coming from one package source in case more than ... Read more

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Release Notes: New Features.NET The OdbcDataProvider now supports a custom ParameterMarkerFormat. Use it to override or correct the format available from the driver's DatabaseInformationSchema. The syntax for data source parameters now supports passing Read more Show more results from this product
Release Notes: Improves the Report Designer with drag & drop support for 1:n relations in the variable/field area. Report Designer Enhanced drag & drop support in the designer: A frequently expressed wish has finally been realized: 1:n relationships are ... Read more
Release Notes: .NET All available NuGet packages now have a special Enterprise package and ID to ensure that the packages are all coming from one package source in case more than one source is defined, e.g. nuget.org and combit's own NuGet server. Please note that ... Read more

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Release Notes: New Features.NET The OdbcDataProvider now supports a custom ParameterMarkerFormat. Use it to override or correct the format available from the driver's DatabaseInformationSchema. The syntax for data source parameters now supports passing Read more Show more results from this product
Release Notes: Enables multidimensional data analysis with adjacent crosstabs. Report Designer Enhanced drag & drop support in the designer: A frequently expressed wish has finally been realized: 1:n relationships are displayed directly in the variables/fields area ... Read more
Release Notes: .NET All available NuGet packages now have a special Enterprise package and ID to ensure that the packages are all coming from one package source in case more than one source is defined, e.g. nuget.org and combit's own NuGet server. Please note that ... Read more

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Release Notes: Tables Pasting from Excel to Editor loses formatting. Text Filters DOCX: restart numbering turns false. 0 ... Read more Show more results from this product
Release Notes: Text Filters Error 1D09 when saving document with table in DOC, DOCX or RTF. Loading a RTF document created in Wordpad in TX32 32-bit causes 01-242D error. Error (01-242D) when loading RTF. Empty list item after paragraph in RTF document. Text Formatting ... Read more
Release Notes: Footnotes- Insert Microsoft Word-compatible footnotes in documents. Footnotes are a word processing feature that allows users to insert additional information at the bottom of pages. Editable [Normal] Stylesheet- Added the ability to manipulate the ... Read more

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Release Notes: Tables Pasting from Excel to Editor loses formatting. Text Filters DOCX: restart numbering turns false. 0 ... Read more Show more results from this product
Release Notes: Text Filters Error 1D09 when saving document with table in DOC, DOCX or RTF. Loading a RTF document created in Wordpad in TX32 32-bit causes 01-242D error. Error (01-242D) when loading RTF. Empty list item after paragraph in RTF document. Text Formatting ... Read more
Release Notes: Adds the ability to manipulate 'Normal' stylesheet. Footnotes- Insert Microsoft Word-compatible footnotes in documents. Footnotes are a word processing feature that allows users to insert additional information at the bottom of pages. Editable ... Read more

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Release Notes: Tables Pasting from Excel to Editor loses formatting. Text Filters DOCX: restart numbering turns false. 0 ... Read more Show more results from this product
Release Notes: Text Filters Error 1D09 when saving document with table in DOC, DOCX or RTF. Loading a RTF document created in Wordpad in TX32 32-bit causes 01-242D error. Error (01-242D) when loading RTF. Empty list item after paragraph in RTF document. Text Formatting ... Read more
Release Notes: Footnotes- Insert Microsoft Word-compatible footnotes in documents. Footnotes are a word processing feature that allows users to insert additional information at the bottom of pages. Editable [Normal] Stylesheet- Added the ability to manipulate the ... Read more

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Release Notes: Added a new Pe3do1.PePlot.Option.WireFrameIsoLineBorders property- Setting True creates extra iso lines to form a border around all iso lines. Improved implementation of Pe3do1.PeGrid.Configure.DxPsManualCullXZ and Pe3do1.PeGrid.Configure.DxPsManualCullY ... Read more Show more results from this product
Release Notes: Improved rendering on Intel integrated graphics. Rendering quality is now similar quality on Iris Xe as other graphics systems. Optimized performance related to initial initialization of Direct3D rendered charts. New Property: 'Pe3do1.PePlot.Option ... Read more
Release Notes: Added new 'Pesgo.PeUserInterface.Allow.ZoomThreshold' property that allows you to control the dragging size pixel threshold of the zoom-box to enable zoom (1- 100 pixels). By default the user must drag 20 pixels to enable zoom. Added new Read more

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Primary Category: Communication & Messaging Components

Release Notes: Corrected an issue which could cause SMTP authentication to unexpectedly fail when using an OAUTH2 token. Corrected an issue where a malformed HTTP response header could result in an aborted connection, and in some cases an unhandled exception would be ... Read more Show more results from this product
Release Notes: Minor updates to the HTML Help and PDF documentation. Changed the PostJson and PostXml methods to normalize single and double quote characters included in the request payload. Updated some internal error handling to report more specific error codes in ... Read more
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Release Notes: Corrected an issue which could cause SMTP authentication to unexpectedly fail when using an OAUTH2 token. Corrected an issue where a malformed HTTP response header could result in an aborted connection, and in some cases an unhandled exception would be ... Read more Show more results from this product
Release Notes: Minor updates to the HTML Help and PDF documentation. Changed the PostJson and PostXml methods to normalize single and double quote characters included in the request payload. Updated some internal error handling to report more specific error codes in ... Read more
Release Notes: Corrected an issue which could cause file transfers to fail when automatic file type detection was used. Corrected an issue which could cause the FTP TYPE command to be repeated before a file transfer started. 0 ... Read more

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Release Notes: Includes updates for the latest release builds of the.NET 7.0 and 8.0 assemblies for Visual Studio 2019 and Visual Studio 2022. The latest.NET SDKs are included with the updates to Visual Studio. Includes a preview release of the.NET 9.0 assemblies for ... Read more Show more results from this product
Release Notes: Included updates for the latest release builds of the Microsoft.NET 7.0 and 8.0 assemblies. Minor updates to the HTML Help and PDF documentation. Changed the PostJson and PostXml methods to normalize single and double quote characters included in the ... Read more
Release Notes: Corrected an issue which could cause file transfers to fail when automatic file type detection was used. Corrected an issue which could cause the FTP TYPE command to be repeated before a file transfer started. 0 ... Read more

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