Visual Basic Concepts

Visual Basic ActiveX Control Features

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Visual Basic allows you to author full-featured ActiveX controls. The topics included in this section explain many of the features of the UserControl object that enable ActiveX control capabilities.

You can read about other potential ActiveX control capabilities in "Adding Properties to Controls," "Adding Methods to Controls," and "Raising Events from Controls."

You can also add property pages to your control, as discussed in "Creating Property Pages for ActiveX Controls."

• How to Handle Focus in Your Control
  
  
• Controls You Can Use As Constituent Controls
  
  
• Object Models for Controls
  
  
• Allowing Developers to Put Controls on Your Control
  
  
• Allowing Your Control to be Enabled and Disabled
  
  
• Adding a Font Object to Your User Control
  
  
• Giving Your Control a Transparent Background
  
  
• Creating Lightweight Controls
  
  
• Allowing Developers to Set Access Keys for Your Control
  
  
• Making Your Control Align to the Edges of Forms
  
  
• Making Your Control Invisible at Run Time
  
  
• Adding an AboutBox to Your Control
  
  
• Providing a Toolbox Bitmap for Your Control
  
  
• Allowing Your Control to be a Default or Cancel Button
  
  
• Adding Internet Features to Controls
  
  
• Designing Controls for Use With HTML
  
  
• Binding a Control to a Data Source
  
  
• Allowing Developers to Edit Your Control at Design Time

Many of the features described in this section are also demonstrated in the CtlPlus.vbg sample application which is listed in the Samples directory.