Looking for a way to let users author for your cool Java™ applet or server component? Want to create an embedded, editable wizard that generates anything you can imagine into an HTML page? If so, Web design-time controls are the solution you've been looking for. The Web Design-time Control SDK will show you how easy it is to create Web design-time controls that can make the most complex HTML authoring tasks simple. The SDK includes:

• Technical documentation and step-by-step tutorials
  (also included in HTML format on this Web site; see below)
• Sample code projects for Visual C++ and
  Visual Basic Control Creation Edition 5.0
• Sample Web design-time controls

Microsoft has also created a special edition of the Microsoft ActiveX Control Pad that supports Web design-time controls. (This is a beta release for developers.) You can download this version of the ActiveX Control Pad below to try out the sample controls in the SDK and the controls you build yourself.

Make sure to visit http://www.microsoft.com/vinterdev/ to find out about Visual Interdev™ (previously code-named "Internet Studio"), a new tool that leverages ActiveX design-time controls.

For more information on the Web Design-time Control SDK, select a link below:

Overview
Building and Hosting Web Design-time Controls
Web Design-time Control Tutorial
Step-by-Step: Building a Web Design-time Control with MFC
Step-by-Step: Building a Web Design-time Control with Visual Basic

When you're ready to download the SDK and the special edition of the ActiveX Control Pad, select:

Download the Web Design-time Control SDK, Beta 1 (self-extracting, 1.83 MB)
Download the special edition of ActiveX Control Pad, Beta 1 release for developers (self-extracting, 3.32 MB)

The files are self-installing, so after saving the files to your hard drive, simply double-click the filename to install.

Accessing the Web Design-time Control SDK newsgroup
We have established an online user-to-user support newsgroup for the Web Design-time Control SDK. This newsgroup is for user-to-user support, although it is monitored by Microsoft for product feedback purposes. To access this newsgroup, use your preferred newsgroup reader and enter the news server address as msnews.microsoft.com. The name of the newsgroup is "activex.programming.control.webdc". Or, you can use the following URL to access the newsgroup directly from a Web browser: news:microsoft.public.activex.programming.control.webdc. The newsreader that is included with Internet Explorer version 3.0 supports multiple news servers; if you're running Internet Explorer 3.0 Beta 1 or later, you can download the newsreader from the Internet Mail and News page.

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