ActiveX Control Tasks

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ActiveX controls were formerly known as OLE Controls. For information on beginning your ActiveX control project, see Overview: Creating an MFC ActiveX Control Program.

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Categories of tasks covered in this topic include:

• Installing and Getting Started with ActiveX Controls
  
  
• Events, Methods, and Properties of ActiveX Controls
  
  
• Optimizing ActiveX Controls
  
  
• Containers for ActiveX Controls
  
  
• Visual Aspects of ActiveX Controls
  
  
• Property Pages for ActiveX Controls
  
  
• VBX and CDK Migration
  
  
• Database Access in ActiveX Controls
  
  
• Miscellaneous ActiveX Control Tasks

Installing and Getting Started with ActiveX Controls

• Install ActiveX control classes and tools
  
  
• Creating an MFC ActiveX Control Program
  
  
• Prepare and register an ActiveX control
  
  
• License an ActiveX control
  
  
• Localize (internationalize) an ActiveX control
  
  
• Distribute my ActiveX control
  
  
• Adding an ActiveX Control to a Dialog Box or other ActiveX control container

Events, Methods, and Properties of ActiveX Controls

• Add stock events to an ActiveX control
  
  
• Add custom events to an ActiveX control
  
  
• Handle events from an ActiveX control
  
  
• Create an ActiveX control event handler function
  
  
• Add stock methods to an ActiveX control
  
  
• Add custom methods to an ActiveX control
  
  
• Add stock properties to an ActiveX control
  
  
• Add custom properties to an ActiveX control
  
  
• Implement a parameterized property in an ActiveX control
  
  
• Give an ActiveX control read-only or write-only properties
  
  
• Return error codes from an ActiveX control method
  
  
• Return error codes from an ActiveX control property
  
  
• Access ambient properties of a control container from an ActiveX control

Optimizing ActiveX Controls

• Optimize an ActiveX control

Containers for ActiveX Controls

• Create an ActiveX control container application
  
  
• Manually enable ActiveX control containment in my application
  
  
• Insert an ActiveX control into an ActiveX control container application
  
  
• View and modify ActiveX control properties in a container application
  
  
• Program my ActiveX control from its container application
  
  
• Use my ActiveX control in a non-dialog container
  
  
• Access ambient properties of a control container from an ActiveX control
  
  
• Test an ActiveX control with Test Container
  
  
• Test events, methods, and properties of an ActiveX control

Visual Aspects of ActiveX Controls

• Paint an ActiveX control
  
  
• Use fonts in an ActiveX control
  
  
• Use pictures in an ActiveX control

Property Pages for ActiveX Controls

• Implement a property page for an ActiveX control
  
  
• Add extra property pages for an ActiveX control
  
  
• Use a stock property page for an ActiveX control

VBX and CDK Migration

• Migrate my VBX control to an ActiveX control
  
  
• Convert a CDK project to a Visual C++ project
  
  
• Add an ActiveX control project to an existing CDK project

Database Access in ActiveX Controls

• Use database classes in an ActiveX control
  
  
• Use data binding in an ActiveX control

Miscellaneous ActiveX Control Tasks

• Handle errors in my ActiveX control
  
  
• Handle special keys in my ActiveX control
  
  
• Serialize an ActiveX control
  
  
• Create an ActiveX control by subclassing a Windows control