White Paper on Developing Advanced ActiveX Controls

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.

MORE INFORMATION

The following files are available for download from the Microsoft Download Center. Click the file names below to download the files:

Axctrl.exe

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http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.asp

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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

Additional query words:

Keywords : kbfile kbVBp500 VBKBComp VBKBCtrl
Version : WINDOWS:5.0
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbinfo