ActiveX control and COM dll
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Can someone explain me the major differences between an ActiveX control and a COM dll in the context of accessing it from a web page using some script. For example, I need to get the MAC ID of the machine from within a web page. So I thought of developing a COM dll, pack it in a cab using cabarc, and call the method from within a script in the OnLoad of the page. Do I need to actually go for creating an ActiveX control instead of developing the COM dll? Is there any problem with using a COM dll? Is there any additional advantage in going for ActiveX instead of COM dll? Infact both the approaches worked fine on my development machine !! Thanks in advance.
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Can someone explain me the major differences between an ActiveX control and a COM dll in the context of accessing it from a web page using some script. For example, I need to get the MAC ID of the machine from within a web page. So I thought of developing a COM dll, pack it in a cab using cabarc, and call the method from within a script in the OnLoad of the page. Do I need to actually go for creating an ActiveX control instead of developing the COM dll? Is there any problem with using a COM dll? Is there any additional advantage in going for ActiveX instead of COM dll? Infact both the approaches worked fine on my development machine !! Thanks in advance.
If you dont need any UI features, then ofcourse you can go for a simple com component. Activex is for putting UI stuff. rgds..mil10