I have just installed a third party app on my Windows Server 2008 server and I get the "ActiveX Component can't create object" Message when I try to access using a CreateObject in VBScript. It is definitely installed and exists under "Programs and Features". Does anyone have a list of things that I can check to find figure out what is ...
hi guys, simple question:How I control my activex is installed on the client? ...
Howdy and Thanks in Advance! I'm trying to access the USB port from a Silverlight Application. Because Silverlight runs in the sandbox, it isn't able to do so. Is it possible to run an ActiveX control from inside a Silverlight Application? (Preferably not an overlay) If so: What examples exist? What are the best practices for this...
What is a good way for an ActiveX control to detect that its container (or container's container) is Internet Explorer? Currently, I am doing this by calling the control's IOleClientSite::GetContainer method and checking whether the container implements the IHtmlDocument2 interface, but now, I would like to check all of the control's an...
How can an ActiveX control, created for a CComCompositeControl as part of a resource (.rc) dialog definition, gain reference to the container of the CComCompositeControl? The ActiveX control created in this way is actually contained in a CAxHostWindow instance per this article. I have observed this to be true and have encountered the p...
I have a AxWMPLib.AxWindowsMediaPlayer on a form. When I close the form, I get "Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt." exception. It is OK with hiding the form but not with closing. Everything's fine when the component is removed from the form. This is Winforms .Net3.5. A...
I'm trying to register my DirectShow filter on Windows Mobile. My project has Linker/General/Register Output set to Yes. However, nothing is getting registered and I'm getting the following error: Project : error PRJ0050: Failed to register output. Please try to register the component from a command prompt with elevated permissions. I'm...
How to embed Adobe Acrobat Professional or Standard (NOT Reader) in my Application? Does it has an ActiveX? ...
HI, Is there a way to extract information from VS_VERSION_INFO (like FILEVERSION fro example) inside the same application? I know, you probably thinking in a path of: 1. GetModuleFileName(...) 2. GetFileVersionInfoSize(...) 3. GetFileVersionInfo(...) 4. VerQueryValue(...) BUT! There is a "twist": I need to make activex contr...
I have a DIV that contains an activex control. This control can resize itself depending on what buttons the user pokes. When the control resizes itself, I would like to reposition the DIV. How can I determine when the control or DIV size has changed without polling? Can it be done? ...
I have an ActiveX control in MFC that manipulates images and I am trying to add TWAIN scanning functionality to it. I need to be able to receive a Windows Message back from the TWAIN driver that tells my control when an image has been scanned, so I have created a CDialog and I pass the HWND of the Dialog to the driver. ALl the sample c...
I have developed an ActiveX control in VB 6.0. I have a placeholder in my ActiveX control, where I need to load a user control developed in VB 6.0 at runtime. The user control has to be part of another DLL/OCX file. How do I load the user control in VB dynamically? All the user controls have some common functionalities. Can I implement...
Is it possible to configure activex to have access to CSIDL_APPDATA under Win2003? Site is trusted but still it fails for some reason. ...
I have an application that is trying to load an ActiveX control residing in a signed cab file on the server. When I try to run the function that loads it, I'm stopped by the IE information bar with the following message: In IE 6 & 7 - "Your security settings do not allow websites to use ActiveX controls installed on your computer" In I...
Hello, I need help on global variable usage in an ActiveX(ATL) project. Basically the ActiveX component function is to navigae to a specified URL in composite control(webbrowser embedded). The URL string is initialize in the beginning and saved in a global variable. here is my source code file of ActiveX project. (Do not be concerne...
Is there a way to ask Flash Player if it plays any SWF files, and if so, which are they ? I guess it's easy to check for running SWFs in the browser. I was wondering if any other application has flash content running... can I detect that and access the swf ? ...
I am designing a web app that has some information that needs to be transferred to a client side (non-browser) application (i.e. Outlook). Assuming the client side app has an API of some sort, I need for the web app to trigger the client side (based on a user clicking a link) to get the information and transfer it into the client app th...
Please could someone point me in the right direction. I've written an ActiveX control in C# and it's working well except for one "small" problem. I'm trying to access the ambient properties of the ActiveX container and am drawing blank. I'm trying to replicate the following VB 6.0 functionality in C#: Ambient Properties: ActiveXAmbien...
I'm the guy who was here a while back asking about controlling Windows Media Player via Java. I've made progress, but I've hit a vexing problem, so I'm back looking for help. I followed the advice I got last time 'round and installed Jacob. I execute these lines out of a test script: ActiveXComponent wmp = new ActiveXComponent("WMPla...
Is there a pure .NET replacement for ActiveX? I'm asking if there is a way for me to write a thick client side control to be loaded and interacted with in a web page in .NET, with NO com. Edit: I don't want ActiveX in pure .NET, I want a .NET alternative to ActiveX. ...