What is ActiveX?
"ActiveX is the consumer brand name for all Microsoft COM-based technologies.... Tylenol is an easy-to-remember, more consumer-friendly brand name for a drug called Acetaminophen. In this same way, ActiveX is an easy-to-remember, more consumer-friendly name for COM. ActiveX certainly sounds much cooler than COM.
The reason so many people are confused by the name ActiveX is because the definition changed. Originally ActiveX was a brand name for all COM-based Microsoft technologies that had utility on the World Wide Web."
---- Alan Gordon (The COM and COM+ Programming Primer)
32 or 64-bit?
Most ActiveXs are 32-bit components, you must select 32-bit code option when using 64-bit compilers. Both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows runs 32-bit applications properly.
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The following are step-by-step lessons on how to use ActiveX in various programming languages.
In the following lessons, we will use Ultimaserial or DataqSDK ActiveX to develop a data acquisition application.
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How to use ActiveX in various programming languages:
Special ActiveXs from DATAQ Visual BASIC and VB.NET
How to use ActiveX in Visual Basic 2010 Express Edition
Visual BASIC for Application (VBA)
How to use ActiveX in Microsoft Excel (via VBA)
VBScript
C#.NET
How to use ActiveX in Visual C# 2010 Express Edition
C++ & C++.NET
How to use DataqSDK ActiveX in Visual C++ 2010 Express Edition
LabView
How to use ActiveX in LabView 9
Matlab
Delphi
TestPoint
Others
How to use ActiveX in VB6 (Visual BASIC)
How to use ActiveX in Microsoft Visio (via VBA)
How to use ActiveX in HTML
page (via VB script)
How
to use ActiveX in Borland C++ Builder
How
to use ActiveX in Visual C++
How to use
ActiveX in LabView 5 & 6
How
to use ActiveX in Delphi
How to use ActiveX in TestPoint
How to use ActiveX in VEE 
How to use ActiveX in ATEasy
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Last update: 11/18/16
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