DOCUMENT:Q175970  11-NOV-1997  [vbwin]
TITLE   :FILE: White Paper on Developing Advanced ActiveX Controls
PRODUCT :Microsoft Visual Basic for Windows
PROD/VER:WINDOWS:5.0
OPER/SYS:WINDOWS
KEYWORDS:vb5all VBKBComp VBKBCtrl

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The information in this article applies to:

 - Microsoft Visual Basic Learning, Professional, and Enterprise Editions
   for Windows, version 5.0
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SUMMARY
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This white paper is an excerpt from the book "Dan Appleman's Developing
ActiveX Components with Visual Basic 5.0: A Guide to the Perplexed,"
published by Ziff-Davis Press. The white paper discusses developing
advanced ActiveX controls using Visual Basic.

MORE INFORMATION
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The white paper is available for download as a self-extracting Word
document from the Microsoft Software Library:

 ~ axctrl.exe

For more information about downloading files from the Microsoft Software
Library, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q119591
   TITLE     : How to Obtain Microsoft Support Files from Online Services

The following topics are discussed:

 - Introduction

 - When should you create an ActiveX control?

 - Starting out with ActiveX controls
   - Design your control
   - The Four Control Models
   - See the Wizards
   - Learn the Fundamentals

 - Building Advanced Controls
   - Persistence can go beyond properties
   - Databinding can go beyond standard control data binding
   - Interface extensions

 - Conclusions
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Keywords          : vb5all VBKBComp VBKBCtrl
Version           : WINDOWS:5.0
Platform          : WINDOWS
Issue type        : kbfile

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