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I apologize in advance if this seems excessively newbie, but I've been looking and Googling for days without the answer.

I want to write a Hello World ActiveX control. My requirements:

  • Users should not have to install any runtimes (like the .NET framework) in order to run it
  • Users should not have to muck with their security settings.. it should run with an out-of-the-box IE configuration
  • Obviously, it will be hosted on a real site, not http://localhost.

This has been driving me nuts. I've been able to do controls fine, and they display on localhost, but I get a big fat red X when putting it on my server on the Internet.

I know for sure this is possible. After all, anyone who's used Facebook's Photo Uploader while browsing the site in IE knows that it is painless.. you click a yellow bar authorizing it, and that's it. No messing around with IE settings.

Help! :)