What is activeX?

Answer 1

ActiveX
from-http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/A/ActiveX.html


"A loosely defined set of technologies developed by Microsoft for sharing information among different applications. ActiveX is an outgrowth of two other Microsoft technologies called OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) and COM (Component Object Model). As a moniker, ActiveX can be very confusing because it applies to a whole set of COM-based technologies. Most people, however, think only of ActiveX controls, which represent a specific way of implementing ActiveX technologies."

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from- http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/visio/visio2002/plan/glossary.mspx

"ActiveX A - technology developed by Microsoft based on reusable software components that can interact with one another, especially in a networked environment. ActiveX components can be written in any of a number of programming languages. The technology is the basis for creating the ActiveX controls often used to customize and add interactivity to Web pages."