activex

DSOFramer closing Excel doc in another window. If unsaved data in file, dsoframer fails to open with "Attempt to access invalid address"

I'm using Microsoft's DSOFramer control to allow me to embed an Excel file in my dialog so the user can choose his sheet, then select his range of cells; it's used with an import button on my dialog. The problem is that when I call the DSOFramer's OPEN function, if I have Excel open in another window, it closes the Excel document (but l...

How can I browse the classes and methods of an ActiveX DLL?

Basically, what I want to is be able to explore an ActiveX DLL. I normally fire up VB 6, add the DLL to the "References" of the project, and use Object Explorer. However, in this particular machine I can't install VB / VS. I'm sure there's a tool out there that does this. Does anyone know of one? Thanks ...

C# ActiveX Control - Crashing IE 7?

I have written a C# ActiveX control that is loaded in a web page hosted by IE7. The page uses Javascript to interact with the ActiveX control (calling functions and receiving events). On the page, there is also a Flash object. Occasionally IE will hang, with an Access Violation error in the Application Log - is it plausible that the C...

How to build an ActiveX object in C++ that can be scripted using Javascript

I can use VS08's MFC/ActiveX template to create a C++ ActiveX object that I can load into a HTML page and script with Javascript. But I can't figure out how to create an interface that allows me to call custom methods on my component with Javascript. Could you please tell me how to accomplish that? I have spent over two hours on google ...

How can I create an activeX in C# control and reference it in a ASP.NET site?

How do I make an activeX control in a C# library project and then reference it in another ASP.NET wet site project? ...

ActiveX in IE. Dialog Box not showing XP Visual Style

I have an ActiveX control in IE (7). When it shows a dialog box, the dialog box is not showing in XP visual style. I have tried embedding manifests to no avail. Anybody got any idea? by the way, the dialog boxes were implemented using wtl. ...

How do I script an OLE component using Python?

I would like to use Python to script an application that advertises itself as providing an OLE component. How should I get started? I don't yet know what methods I need to call on the COMponents I will be accessing. Should I use win32com to load those components, and then start pressing 'tab' in IPython? ...

Win32: Registry entries required to register an ActiveX control?

i need write the code that runs when DllRegisterServer is called. i.e. when someone calls: regsvr32 myActiveX.ocx i'm trying to find the definitive list of required registry entries (rather than just what i can cobble together by spellunking through the registry). So far my expeditions have found: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT \MyCoolLibrary...

How to trace COM/ActiveX dependencies?

Is there anything "out there", similar to Dependency Walker, which walks and reports the dependencies of an ActiveX/COM object? ...

Can you register an ActiveX dll in Java programmatically?

I have a third-party ActiveX dll, and I'd like to register it programmatically at run time, if possible. Can this be done in Java? The application I'm working with is an Eclipse application on Windows XP. ...

Google Earth popup video (ActiveX)

Is it possible to place an ActiveX control in a Google Earth placemark pop up? I have a proprietary third party activex control that I can put in embed in HTML. Would this work for Google Earth? ...

MS Web Browser on Pocket PC

Hi all, I'm trying to create a custom web browser for on a pocket pc in C++ MFC. When I add the Microsoft Web Browser activeX control and run the app on the pocket pc (emulator) then this error pops up: "Debug assertion failed. occcont.cpp line: 916" When I look in the debug window of VS2005: "CoCreateInstance of OLE control {8856F961-...

Host a WPF control in activex instead of Win32 App

I'm searching an example of an activex that contain a WPF control. I'm able to see the control during registration of activex in the test activex container but when I instantiate it i cannot see WPF but what is coded inside OnDraw. Any hint or example? ...

Creating and deploying an ActiveX control in .NET

Since there is apparently no Flash control that can accept bitmap pastes, I want to think about writing one myself. I'd rather not use Flash though, so I though about using .NET. Now I believe the correct terminology for a native code control that can be downloaded and run in the browser is "ActiveX control". So my question is, can I cr...

Returning a value from a method in an ActiveX control

I'm creating an ActiveX control that will be used in web pages to query the current installed version of a 3rd party software on the client machine. The control only needs to expose a single method - GetVersion - that returns the version as an integer. I'm very inexperienced with ActiveX, and I'm having problems with something as simple ...

ActiveX control within Web Page to create User Account

I'm wondering if there is any way to create a User Account on a Windows XP machine that can be done through scripting from an ActiveX control on a webpage. Specifically, I'd like to know if there's any way to deploy an ActiveX control with computers (that I preconfigure and ship) that will allow use of my webpage from that computer to d...

How can a webpage react to Information Bar

To facilitate uploading on our web application we install/load an ActiveX control on the upload page. People don't realise the information bar is asking them to install this control. How do I set up the page so it instructs /suppors users and helps them install the addon and only proceeds when this is done? I can't find the trigger/http ...

where is my ActiveX DLL project template in VS 2005?

In VB6, ActiveX DLL is listed as a project template but in VS 2005+ there is no such thing. Where is my good old ActiveX DLL template? Many thanks in advance. ...

How do I add an ActiveX component to my project in Visual C++ 2008

I am just learning Visual C++ and I am used to Visual Basic where I just select the ActiveX component from a list of references. I can seem to add it anywhere. If I go to the Project | References, it is all blank. It only allows me to specify a path and when I specify the path of the AcitveX component, nothing new happens. I dragged ...

ActiveX on Visual C++ 6 Tutorial

Hi people. I have to build an application based in an ActiveX library (MIL for Matrox framegrabbers). The library should be already working, since it compiles and run a console application provided as example. (Yes, the console application is probably not using any ActiveX at all... I actually don't know) The application will set times...