Active Document Container Apps Must Redistribute ACTXPRXY

ID: Q173476

The information in this article applies to:

Internet Explorer (Programming), versions 3.0, 4.0, 4.01

SUMMARY

Active Document container applications will fail to display an Active Document in-place on machines that do not have Office 97 or Internet Explorer installed. When distributing an Active Document container, you need to redistribute the Actxprxy.dll with the application. AxRedist.exe contains the Actxprxy.dll.

MORE INFORMATION

The following file is available for download from the Microsoft Software Library:

~ AxRedist.exe

For more information about downloading files from the Microsoft Software Library, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q119591 How to Obtain Microsoft Support Files from Online Services

Actxprxy.dll must be installed on a system in order for local server (EXE) Active Document objects to open in place in Active Document containers. Actxprxy.dll provides out-of-process marshalling for the Active Document interfaces; if it doesn't exist and isn't registered, out-of-process containers will fail to perform the necessary interface negotiation to open the Active Document server. This isn't a problem on machines with Internet Explorer 3.0, Office 97, or any more recent version of those two products installed. If a developer deploys their own Active Document container on systems without Internet Explorer or Office 97 installed, they will need to redistribute Actxprxy.dll.

AxRedist.exe contains the ActiveX redistributables for the ActiveX SDK. Axredist.exe is a self-extracting executable file. To extract the files contained in Axredist.exe, copy the file to a subdirectory of your choice and extract the files by typing: "axredist.exe -d". NOTE: Failing to use the -d option causes these files to extract into a flat-file structure rather than into their proper subdirectories. Axredist.exe contains the file Aprxdist.exe, which installs Actxprxy.dll (see the Readme.txt file contained in AxRedist for more information on installing this DLL). Axredist.exe is available for Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 only (same file).

This DLL is also available as part of a redistributable package, which is part of the ActiveX SDK.

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Keywords          : kbfile kbsample kbIE300 kbIE400 kbIE401 AXSDKDocObjects 
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Platform          : WINDOWS 
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Last Reviewed: May 14, 1999