Welcome to the Microsoft Visual InterDev 6.0 design-time control (DTC) software development kit. This kit gives you everything you need to start creating your own DTCs. DTCs are a class of ActiveX control to use exclusively at design time or authoring time to build HTML, DHTML, and XML statements in a Web page. These controls function like embedded visual tools for use by Web page developers to quickly generate text for a Web page.
Use the following table to get a short answer to common questions and to find the details behind those answers.
| Question | Short answer and link to details |
| What is a design-time control? | An ActiveX control that generates run-time text. See Comparing an ActiveX Control to a Design-Time Control. |
| Why create a design-time control? | To automate text and scripting for rapid Web page design. See Automating Text and Script. |
| What do design-time controls provide? | Run-time text for a Web page. See Understanding DTC Output. |
| What is new this year? | Sharing information between DTCs. See What's New?. |
| What is in this SDK? | Library files, documentation, and templates. See SDK Files and Information. |
| How do I create a DTC? | Use the DTC interfaces. See Creating a DTC. |
| What objects, properties, and methods can I use? | The Choices object model. See Choices Object Table. |
| How can I enable Visual InterDev features in my DTC? | Subscribe to Visual InterDev's choices, launch the Query Builder, or expose an object model. See Communicating with Visual InterDev. |