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A Complete ActiveX Web Control Tutorial

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This article is intended to help you get up to speed quickly with developing an ActiveX control. It will show you the basic concepts you need to know about ActiveX, such as methods, properties, and events, and how to communicate between an ActiveX control and a web page.
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Build Log

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<h3>Rebuild started: Project: MyActiveX, Configuration: Release|Win32</h3>

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Command Lines

</font></table><table width=* cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0><tr><td width=0 bgcolor=#EDEDF5>&nbsp;</td><td width=0 bgcolor=#FFFFFF>&nbsp;</td><td width=*><pre>Creating temporary file "c:\dev2\MyActiveX\MyActiveX\Release\RSP00000125362964.rsp" with contents

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/D &quot;NDEBUG&quot; /char signed /env win32  /tlb &quot;Release/MyActiveX.tlb&quot; /h &quot;MyActiveXidl.h&quot; /no_robust


.\MyActiveX.idl

]

Creating command line "midl.exe @c:\dev2\MyActiveX\MyActiveX\Release\RSP00000125362964.rsp /nologo"

Creating temporary file "c:\dev2\MyActiveX\MyActiveX\Release\RSP00000225362964.rsp" with contents

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/O2 /GL /D &quot;WIN32&quot; /D &quot;_WINDOWS&quot; /D &quot;NDEBUG&quot; /D &quot;_USRDLL&quot; /D &quot;_WINDLL&quot; /D &quot;_UNICODE&quot; /D &quot;UNICODE&quot; /FD /EHsc /MT /Yu&quot;stdafx.h&quot; /Fp&quot;Release\MyActiveX.pch&quot; /Fo&quot;Release\\&quot; /Fd&quot;Release\vc80.pdb&quot; /W3 /c /Wp64 /Zi /TP .\PictureEx.cpp


.\MyActiveXPropPage.cpp


.\MyActiveXCtrl.cpp


.\MyActiveX.cpp


.\MainDialog.cpp

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Creating command line "cl.exe @c:\dev2\MyActiveX\MyActiveX\Release\RSP00000225362964.rsp /nologo /errorReport:prompt"

Creating temporary file "c:\dev2\MyActiveX\MyActiveX\Release\RSP00000325362964.rsp" with contents

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/O2 /GL /D &quot;WIN32&quot; /D &quot;_WINDOWS&quot; /D &quot;NDEBUG&quot; /D &quot;_USRDLL&quot; /D &quot;_WINDLL&quot; /D &quot;_UNICODE&quot; /D &quot;UNICODE&quot; /FD /EHsc /MT /Yc&quot;stdafx.h&quot; /Fp&quot;Release\MyActiveX.pch&quot; /Fo&quot;Release\\&quot; /Fd&quot;Release\vc80.pdb&quot; /W3 /c /Wp64 /Zi /TP .\stdafx.cpp

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Creating command line "cl.exe @c:\dev2\MyActiveX\MyActiveX\Release\RSP00000325362964.rsp /nologo /errorReport:prompt"

Creating command line "rc.exe /d "NDEBUG" /d "_UNICODE" /d "UNICODE" /l 0x409 /I "Release" /fo"Release/MyActiveX.res" .\MyActiveX.rc"

Creating temporary file "c:\dev2\MyActiveX\MyActiveX\Release\RSP00000425362964.rsp" with contents

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/OUT:&quot;C:\dev2\MyActiveX\Release\MyActiveX.ocx&quot; /INCREMENTAL:NO /DLL /MANIFEST /MANIFESTFILE:&quot;Release\MyActiveX.ocx.intermediate.manifest&quot; /DEF:&quot;.\MyActiveX.def&quot; /DELAYLOAD:&quot;OleAcc.dll&quot; /DEBUG /PDB:&quot;c:\dev2\MyActiveX\release\MyActiveX.pdb&quot; /SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS /OPT:REF /OPT:ICF /LTCG /MACHINE:X86  DelayImp.lib


&quot;.\Release\MainDialog.obj&quot;


&quot;.\Release\MyActiveX.obj&quot;


&quot;.\Release\MyActiveXCtrl.obj&quot;


&quot;.\Release\MyActiveXPropPage.obj&quot;


&quot;.\Release\PictureEx.obj&quot;


&quot;.\Release\stdafx.obj&quot;


&quot;.\Release\MyActiveX.res&quot;

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Creating command line "link.exe @c:\dev2\MyActiveX\MyActiveX\Release\RSP00000425362964.rsp /NOLOGO /ERRORREPORT:PROMPT"

Creating temporary file "c:\dev2\MyActiveX\MyActiveX\Release\RSP00000525362964.rsp" with contents

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/outputresource:&quot;..\release\MyActiveX.ocx;#2&quot; /manifest


.\Release\MyActiveX.ocx.intermediate.manifest

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Creating command line "mt.exe @c:\dev2\MyActiveX\MyActiveX\Release\RSP00000525362964.rsp /nologo"

Creating temporary file "c:\dev2\MyActiveX\MyActiveX\Release\BAT00000625362964.bat" with contents

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@echo Manifest resource last updated at %TIME% on %DATE% &gt; .\Release\mt.dep

]

Creating command line "c:\dev2\MyActiveX\MyActiveX\Release\BAT00000625362964.bat"

Creating temporary file "c:\dev2\MyActiveX\MyActiveX\Release\BAT00000725362964.bat" with contents

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@echo off


cd ..\release


regsvr32 /s &quot;MyActiveX.ocx&quot;


if errorlevel 1 goto VCReportError


goto VCEnd


:VCReportError


echo Project : error PRJ0050: Failed to register output. Please ensure you have the appropriate permissions to modify the registry.


:VCEnd




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Creating command line "c:\dev2\MyActiveX\MyActiveX\Release\BAT00000725362964.bat"

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Output Window

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Processing .\MyActiveX.idl

MyActiveX.idl

Processing C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\PlatformSDK\include\oaidl.idl

oaidl.idl

Processing C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\PlatformSDK\include\objidl.idl

objidl.idl

Processing C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\PlatformSDK\include\unknwn.idl

unknwn.idl

Processing C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\PlatformSDK\include\wtypes.idl

wtypes.idl

Processing C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\PlatformSDK\include\basetsd.h

basetsd.h

Processing C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\PlatformSDK\include\guiddef.h

guiddef.h

Processing C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\PlatformSDK\include\oaidl.acf

oaidl.acf

Compiling...

stdafx.cpp

Compiling...

PictureEx.cpp

.\PictureEx.cpp(528) : warning C4244: '=' : conversion from 'ULONGLONG' to 'DWORD', possible loss of data

.\PictureEx.cpp(1104) : warning C4267: 'return' : conversion from 'size_t' to 'int', possible loss of data

MyActiveXPropPage.cpp

MyActiveXCtrl.cpp

MyActiveX.cpp

MainDialog.cpp

Compiling resources...

Linking...

   Creating library C:\dev2\MyActiveX\Release\MyActiveX.lib and object C:\dev2\MyActiveX\Release\MyActiveX.exp

Generating code

Finished generating code

Embedding manifest...

Registering output...

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Results

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MyActiveX - 0 error(s), 2 warning(s)

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