“Active X controls” are the first DCOM (Distributed Component Object Model)-based OLE controls

• start MSVC appwizard

• Identify UUID

grep uuid *.odl

• Registering the componant :

regsvr32 ”…\Componant.ocx”

• Calling the commponant from a webpage

<OBJECT ID=“ActiveXComponant” WIDTH=120 HEIGHT=30

   CLASSID="CLSID:66601D10-EC42-11CE-9E0D-00AA0060XYZ0">
 </object>

• load page w/ IE it should display a oval

• now you can try to undertand starting from :

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vclib/html/_mfc_cdc.3a3a.ellipse.asp

OLE (Object Linking and Embedding)

ActiveX Template Library (ATL)

• http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/components/activex/tutorial.asp
• http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/mozilla.htm
• http://activex.moonvalley.com/
• http://www.codeproject.com/opengl/opengl_activex.asp

Books :

• isbn:1556226330 # Learn ActiveX Template Library Development with Visual C++ 6.0
• * ActiveX Controls Inside Out d'Adam Denning chez Microsoft Press 1997

• http://clients.dbee.com/thomson/20080522/fr/prerequis.html

ActiveX on Linux ?

iexplore "http://www.laposte.fr/LRE/"

• http://activex.sourceforge.net/