ActiveX Control Topics

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An ActiveX control (formerly known as an OLE control) is a reusable software component that supports a wide variety of OLE functionality and can be customized to fit many software needs. ActiveX controls are designed for use both in ordinary ActiveX control containers and on the Internet, in World Wide Web pages. You can create ActiveX controls either with MFC, described in this article family, or with Active Template Library (ATL).

For some recent information on optimizing your ActiveX controls, see ActiveX Controls: Optimization.

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Basic ActiveX Control Information

• What ActiveX controls are
  
  
• ActiveX control containers
  
  
• ActiveX
  
  
• The Control Test Container, used for testing ActiveX controls
  
  
• Install ActiveX control classes and tools

Programming ActiveX Controls

• Painting an ActiveX control
  
  
• ActiveX control events
  
  
• ActiveX control methods
  
  
• ActiveX control properties
  
  
• ActiveX control property pages
  
  
• Fonts in ActiveX controls
  
  
• Pictures in ActiveX controls
  
  
• Distributing ActiveX controls
  
  
• Licensing ActiveX controls
  
  
• Localizing ActiveX controls
  
  
• Serializing ActiveX controls
  
  
• Subclassing a Windows control
  
  
• Data binding in an ActiveX control
  
  
• Optimizing an ActiveX control

Control Migration

• Migrating a Visual Basic control (VBX)
  
  
• Adding an ActiveX control to an existing Control Development Kit (CDK) project
  
  
• Converting a CDK project to a Visual C++ project

Advanced ActiveX Control Topics

• Using database classes in ActiveX controls
  
  
• Parameterized properties
  
  
• Error handling in an ActiveX control
  
  
• Handling special keys in an ActiveX control
  
  
• Accessing dialog controls that are invisible at run time