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ActiveX is a Microsoft-proprietary framework for defining and accessing interfaces, to system resources, in a programming-language independent way.

ActiveX is a Microsoft-proprietary framework for defining and accessing interfaces to system resources, in a programming-language independent way.

It's used in many Microsoft Windows applications such as: , , , and .
These applications also encapsulate their own functionality as ActiveX controls for other applications to use. Internet Explorer also allows embedding ActiveX controls onto web pages.

ActiveX is a successor to Microsoft's earlier and technologies.

Projects, such as , facilitate developing plugins as both NPAPI plugins and ActiveX controls.

Other Related Tags: ,

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How to copy multiples files from server to usb drive

In my java web application need to copy 6 files from server to user machine usb drive on clicking of save files button. If usb drive not found than need to show warning message 'no usb drive detected'. I think, Due to security issue it is not…
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ADOBE VBS Script setup / settings

I have a nice and tidy VBS script which print first 5 pages off all documents which was dragged to this VBS. set WshShell = CreateObject ("Wscript.Shell") set fs = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set objArgs = WScript.Arguments if…
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.Net Compact Framework - Calling ActiveX Object that uses [out] SAFEARRAY(float) *

In the Compact Framework 3.5, I am attempting to call an ActiveX object that has an IDL function signature: HRESULT MyFunc([out] SAFEARRAY(float) *var) The Interop generation creates the msil [out] class [mscorlib]System.Array& marshal( safearray…
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In vb.net when calling a method from an instance of Outlook.Application, a pop up halts code execution

We have a vb.net windows application that creates an instance of Outlook.Application to open an email .MSG file, and save it as a .HTML by calling the Outlook.Application SaveAs() method. However, sometimes the call to .SaveAs() causes a popup to…
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ActiveForm gets dual resize events when zoom<>100%

I have an ActiveForm written in Delphi 7, contained within a resizeable . Resizing works fine, but at browser zoom levels other than 100% the form gets two resize events for every change in the browser size. The first event is for the scaled…
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How do I use COM objects in an OOB Silverlight 4.0 application?

I am contemplating building an out of browser Silverlight application. One of the reasons it has to be OOB is because I need to access an old school ActiveX/COM object and that is only allowed OOB. I am having trouble finding any examples on how…
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Microsoft .net Security Warning : Never enter personal information or passwords

So I have an ASP.net application, with an ActiveX Control which brings up a pop up When I point to the application directly through IP there is no problem with the pop up eg. xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/MyApp (under Default Website in the IIS -- IIS…
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How to change the reference file type from "Assembly" to "ActiveX" in Visual Studio?

I have a Visual Studio Community 2015 project that was working properly, until I tried creating an MSI package with it. It would seem that one of the references to an ActiveX library changed to type Assembly, and I can't figure out how to change it…
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Registration free activation of native COM (activex) component from .NET

I have a native dll (which is an activex control) that I need use with my .NET application without having to register the dll in the registry. I have read several in depth posts about registration free activation, some of the better ones are A…
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ActiveX Textbox on Excel sheet change border and font when lost focus

I have a problem with ActiveX Textbox on MS Excel as images below: On focused: But, when losted focus, it show incorrect font: Can you tell me how to correct the issue?
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Browser plugins | technologies for COM port communication

I am looking to develop a specialized browser plugin that will interface with the local COM port (mainly read input). I assume this can be easily achieved with ActiveX technology, but want to make sure Firefox/Safari/Chrome browsers (let alone,…
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use ActiveX in java

Hi all I am trying to develop a program that uses a program called VLC to display media. This program can be installed on windows; also there is a version for using in java called JVLC. I have used executing vlc.exe as a process. also I have tried…
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QAxWidget.dynamicCall works for pyqt5.5.1, but not for qt5.7(c++)

Currently, I have an 'xyz.ocx' file and want to call its functions. As I mentioned in the title, I succeeded calling its function using PyQt5.5.1 and Python 3.4.4. Here's the following code. from PyQt5.QAxContainer import QAxWidget from…
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ActiveX events in C#

I am trying to use an old ActiveX control in C#, and this line from CreateSink method cookie = new AxHost.ConnectionPointCookie(ocx, eventMulticaster, typeof(TrueDBGridEvents)); will fail and generate an exception. The exception is "Source object…
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VBA checkboxes in Word

I have a word document which has lots of pages, and sections which after each step have an ActiveX control check box. At the end of the document there is a completion table which has the name of the sections and when the last check box for a certain…
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