Creating an ActiveX Control in Visual Studio 2005

There have been misconceptions on technologies upon the arrival of .Net. Many programmers believe that the arrival of .Net means the scrapping of all previous technologies. Or in other word the COM technology. COM or ActiveX technology has been around us for very long. So it’s not quite easy to scrap a long-time proven technology. Some also believed that the .Net technology replaces the ActiveX in all applications. Well, sadly this is not true. I was awakened by this reality when I handled a code conversion project. It was a conversion from Visual Basic 6 to Visual Basic 8 (VB2005). The Visual Basic 6 project was a dll-based project with an ActiveX Document as its user interface. As we all know, user documents are controls that is embedded to a web page.

Writing an ActiveX control in C#

http://dotnetslackers.com/articles/csharp/WritingAnActiveXControlInCSharp.aspx An ActiveX control is an object that supports a customizable programmatic interface. Using the methods, events and properties exposed by the control, web developers can automate their web pages to give the functionality which is equivalent to that of a desktop application.