Visual Basic Concepts

ActiveX Controls Overview

This section, "Using ActiveX Controls*,*"**provides a starting point for each of the ActiveX controls, formerly called OLE controls, in the Microsoft Visual Basic programming system. Each ActiveX control is documented in its own section here with task-oriented overviews. These overviews are not meant to replace the language reference information, but to give the new user contexts for using the controls.

For language-specific information, search for the control's name.

Topics

	What Is an ActiveX Control? Short description of ActiveX controls.
	Installing and Registering ActiveX Controls Details about installing and registering the ActiveX controls.
	Upgrading VBX Controls to ActiveX Controls Details about upgrading applications created with .vbx controls.
	Loading ActiveX Controls Load ActiveX controls using the Components dialog box.
	ActiveX Controls File Names Lists the ActiveX controls associated with each .ocx file.
	Data Bound ActiveX Controls List of data-bound ActiveX controls.
	The About Property Description of the About property.
	ActiveX Control Class List of all ActiveX control class names.
	Creating, Running, and Distributing Executable (.exe) Files Details on distributing applications created with ActiveX controls.