FILE: White Paper on Developing Advanced ActiveX Controls

• Microsoft Visual Basic Learning, Professional, and Enterprise Editions for Windows, version 5.0

SUMMARY

This white paper is an excerpt from the book "Dan Appleman's Developing ActiveX Components with Visual Basic 5.0: A Guide to the Perplexed," published by Ziff-Davis Press. The white paper discusses developing advanced ActiveX controls using Visual Basic.

MORE INFORMATION

The white paper is available for download as a self-extracting Word document from the Microsoft Software Library:

~ axctrl.exe

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• Introduction



• When should you create an ActiveX control?



• Starting out with ActiveX controls
  
  
  • Design your control
  
  
  
  • The Four Control Models
  
  
  
  • See the Wizards
  
  
  
  • Learn the Fundamentals
  
  
  



• Building Advanced Controls
  
  
  • Persistence can go beyond properties
  
  
  
  • Databinding can go beyond standard control data binding
  
  
  
  • Interface extensions
  
  
  



• Conclusions

Keywords          : kbVBp500 VBKBComp VBKBCtrl 
Version           : WINDOWS:5.0
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : 

Last Reviewed: June 8, 1999