ActiveX Control Tasks

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ActiveX controls were formerly known as OLE Controls. For information on beginning your ActiveX control project, see Overview: Creating an MFC ActiveX Control Program.

What do you want to do?

Categories of tasks covered in this topic include:

• Installing and Getting Started with ActiveX Controls

• Events, Methods, and Properties of ActiveX Controls

• Optimizing ActiveX Controls

• Containers for ActiveX Controls

• Visual Aspects of ActiveX Controls

• Property Pages for ActiveX Controls

• VBX and CDK Migration

• Database Access in ActiveX Controls

• Miscellaneous ActiveX Control Tasks

Installing and Getting Started with ActiveX Controls

• Install ActiveX control classes and tools

• Creating an MFC ActiveX Control Program

• Prepare and register an ActiveX control

• License an ActiveX control

• Localize (internationalize) an ActiveX control

• Distribute my ActiveX control

• Adding an ActiveX Control to a Dialog Box or other ActiveX control container

Events, Methods, and Properties of ActiveX Controls

• Add stock events to an ActiveX control

• Add custom events to an ActiveX control

• Handle events from an ActiveX control

• Create an ActiveX control event handler function

• Add stock methods to an ActiveX control

• Add custom methods to an ActiveX control

• Add stock properties to an ActiveX control

• Add custom properties to an ActiveX control

• Implement a parameterized property in an ActiveX control

• Give an ActiveX control read-only or write-only properties

• Return error codes from an ActiveX control method

• Return error codes from an ActiveX control property

• Access ambient properties of a control container from an ActiveX control

Optimizing ActiveX Controls

• Optimize an ActiveX control

Containers for ActiveX Controls

• Create an ActiveX control container application

• Manually enable ActiveX control containment in my application

• Insert an ActiveX control into an ActiveX control container application

• View and modify ActiveX control properties in a container application

• Program my ActiveX control from its container application

• Use my ActiveX control in a non-dialog container

• Access ambient properties of a control container from an ActiveX control

• Test an ActiveX control with Test Container

• Test events, methods, and properties of an ActiveX control

Visual Aspects of ActiveX Controls

• Paint an ActiveX control

• Use fonts in an ActiveX control

• Use pictures in an ActiveX control

Property Pages for ActiveX Controls

• Implement a property page for an ActiveX control

• Add extra property pages for an ActiveX control

• Use a stock property page for an ActiveX control

VBX and CDK Migration

• Migrate my VBX control to an ActiveX control

• Convert a CDK project to a Visual C++ project

• Add an ActiveX control project to an existing CDK project

Database Access in ActiveX Controls

• Use database classes in an ActiveX control

• Use data binding in an ActiveX control

Miscellaneous ActiveX Control Tasks

• Handle errors in my ActiveX control

• Handle special keys in my ActiveX control

• Serialize an ActiveX control

• Create an ActiveX control by subclassing a Windows control