FILE: White Paper on Developing Advanced ActiveX Controls

Last reviewed: November 11, 1997
Article ID: Q175970
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Visual Basic Learning, Professional, and Enterprise Editions for Windows, version 5.0

SUMMARY

This white paper is an excerpt from the book "Dan Appleman's Developing ActiveX Components with Visual Basic 5.0: A Guide to the Perplexed," published by Ziff-Davis Press. The white paper discusses developing advanced ActiveX controls using Visual Basic.

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The white paper is available for download as a self-extracting Word document from the Microsoft Software Library:

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The following topics are discussed:
  • Introduction
  • When should you create an ActiveX control?
  • Starting out with ActiveX controls - Design your control - The Four Control Models - See the Wizards - Learn the Fundamentals
  • Building Advanced Controls - Persistence can go beyond properties - Databinding can go beyond standard control data binding - Interface extensions
  • Conclusions
Keywords          : vb5all VBKBComp VBKBCtrl
Version           : WINDOWS:5.0
Platform          : WINDOWS
Issue type        : kbfile


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Last reviewed: November 11, 1997
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