ActiveX Document Advantages
The advantages of creating and deploying ActiveX documents are:
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You can leverage your knowledge of Visual Basic. If you are skilled in
programming Visual Basic, you already have the knowledge to reach your
goals — you do not have to learn another programming language (as you do
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You can leverage the Visual Basic programming environment. The full
development environment is available to you, including the Visual Basic
code window, debugger, and compiler.
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Ability to create ActiveX documents that run in Internet Explorer. For
all intents and purposes, an ActiveX document is a Visual Basic
application that is now accessible in a widely-used container.www.tartoos.com
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Execution on a local machine. The ActiveX component can contain all the
necessary code to deliver the results of complex calculations.www.tartoos.com
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Immediate visual feedback about layout of elements. Placing TextBox and
CommandButton controls on an ActiveX document gives you immediate
feedback about how the document will look. In contrast, coding an HTML
document takes practice and guesswork.www.tartoos.com
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Support for the Hyperlink object, which allows an ActiveX document to
request that the container (if it is Hyperlink-aware) to navigate to
another ActiveX document, or a Web site.www.tartoos.com
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Support for the AsyncRead method. The method begins an asynchronous
transfer of data, allowing other code to execute while the data is
retrieved.
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Note There is one control that cannot be placed on an ActiveX
document: the OLE Container Control. Also note that embedded objects, such
as an Microsoft Excel or Word documents, are not allowed on ActiveX
documents.
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