Struggling with ActiveX and IE

[Marc Clifton]

Geez, I feel like such a newbie. Anyways, can anyone recommend some good reference material that walk you through the whole process of creating a simple ActiveX control to putting it on the browser (IE is fine). I've been searching for the last few days and have gotten pretty frustrated with both the Microsoft documentation and other stuff out there. None of it takes you through all the steps, up to and including the HTML. Pretty much, they all leave you dangling after walking through the MFC ActiveX wizard. Woohoo. (And yes, I posted a specific programming question to my problem on the COM forum, but here I'm looking for some recommendations on what I should read to learn this stuff). Thanks! Marc Pensieve Some people believe what the bible says. Literally. At least [with Wikipedia] you have the chance to correct the wiki -- Jörgen Sigvardsson

[Rama Krishna Vavilala]

Marc Clifton wrote:

ActiveX control

I will use ATL to write an ActiveX control. Here is a good reference http://www.microsoft.com/msj/0299/atl3Activex/atl3Activex.aspx[^]

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[Marc Clifton]

Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:

I will use ATL to write an ActiveX control. Here is a good reference

Thanks, some useful info in there. Marc Pensieve Some people believe what the bible says. Literally. At least [with Wikipedia] you have the chance to correct the wiki -- Jörgen Sigvardsson

[Rama Krishna Vavilala]

BTW after you complete the ActiveX project I want to know what your opinion is about whether C# makes a developer dumber/lazy. I did a whole bunch of C# recently and now I have tough time fixing a custom marshaling code that I wrote in ATL 3 yrs back.

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[Marc Clifton]

Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:

I want to know what your opinion is about whether C# makes a developer dumber/lazy.

hehe. It was ridiculously easy to host a .NET WinForm control in IE. But all the security restrictions, argh!

Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:

and now I have tough time fixing a custom marshaling code that I wrote in ATL 3 yrs back.

Well, I wouldn't blame that on C#, rather simply not using a technology for a while. My SQL is so rusty at this point I need WD40 for the brain. But again, I don't blame that on C#, instead, it's because my work took me in a direction where I wasn't immersed on a daily basis in SQL. Marc Pensieve Some people believe what the bible says. Literally. At least [with Wikipedia] you have the chance to correct the wiki -- Jörgen Sigvardsson

[CodeGuy]

Developer's Workshop to COM and ATL 3.0 by Andrew Troelsen[^] Best all-around COM/ATL/ActiveX book. Brandon

[Todd Smith]

ActiveX will make you tear your hair out sometimes (if you have any left that is). Wait until you do something silly like spell CLASSID wrong and your control no longer loads from the HTML. UG. Todd Smith

[Marc Clifton]

CodeGuy wrote:

Best all-around COM/ATL/ActiveX book.

Excellent! Thank you! Marc Pensieve Some people believe what the bible says. Literally. At least [with Wikipedia] you have the chance to correct the wiki -- Jörgen Sigvardsson

[Marc Clifton]

Todd Smith wrote:

Wait until you do something silly like spell CLASSID wrong and your control no longer loads from the HTML. UG.

Yup. It's like declarative programming. :-D Marc Pensieve Some people believe what the bible says. Literally. At least [with Wikipedia] you have the chance to correct the wiki -- Jörgen Sigvardsson