ActiveX Dead? Alternatives?

[Carl Daniel [VC++ MVP]]

Quite the opposite - any ActiveX control is a COM DLL. Not every COM
DLL is an ActiveX control, though.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/components/activex/controls.asp

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In other words, a control, at the very least, is some COM object that
supports the IUnknown interface and is also self-registering.
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You're right, not every COM object is an Active-X control.

I'm also right - every self registering COM object IS an ActiveX control.

Note that to be an OLE Control, which is what most people think of when they
hear "Active X Control" requires much much more.

-cd

 

[Altman]

Here is a quote from MS Longhorn site

What is the future of COM, OLE and in-place activation?

All of COM and OLE that you've come to know and love will live on in
Longhorn, although it won't be extended. COM and OLE aren't "dead," but they
are "done."