Automation supports both dynamic and static type information and type libraries. Support for dynamic type information means that an object's type information can change, allowing end users to edit the object at design time by writing code or adding properties and events to create new, unique run-time objects.
When you implement an ActiveX designer, you have to decide which kind of type information to support. It helps to understand how hosts aggregate the objects your designer and the user create.
This chapter covers the following topics: