Activex control is a ready to use control.....
In our system there will be some inbuilt active x controls
given by the os, such as...windows media player ,calender
etc...thease controls can be used in any platform
(c ,c++,java,dotnet....).So we can also create the active x
controls that can be used anywhere in any
application...using actrive x controls in vc++ is very easy
refer to an example by browsing in google .....if u need
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ActiveX are software component based on Microsoft's
component based technology(COM).ActiveX controls were
originally called "OLE controls" and used an .OCX file
extension. They were Microsoft's second-generation
component architecture (Visual Basic Controls (VBXs) were
the first). OLE controls were renamed ActiveX and continued
to use the .OCX name.
A Microsoft ActiveX control is essentially a simple OLE
object that supports the IUnknown interface.
Developed by Microsoft corporation, ActiveX is a technology
used to add interactivity to Web pages. With ActiveX, you
can add interactive controls to Web pages. These controls
can be anything from a single push-button to a complete
spreadsheet.