• ActiveX Control Concepts
  • Basic concepts specified in the OCX 94 specification
  • Properties, methods, events, property pages, persistence, registration and status bits
  • OCX 96 and Internet additions

• MFC Support for ActiveX Controls
  • Support provided by MFC for building ActiveX controls
  • COleControl, COleControlModule, COlePropertyPage classes
  • Control Wizard
  • Test container

• Properties
  • Properties and support for properties provided by MFC
  • Ambient, extended, stock and custom properties
  • Control persistence
  • Property exchange functions and COM interfaces for persistence

• Property Pages
  • Property pages
  • Stock predefined property pages
  • Custom property pages
  • COlePropertyPage and data transfer functions

• More Properties
  • Fonts and pictures in ActiveX controls and the COM interfaces
  • Data binding and the notification process

• Events
  • MFC support for events
  • Connection point mechanism
  • Request, before, after, and do event types
  • Implementing stock events and adding custom events
  • Handling synchronous and asynchronous errors

• Active X Control Container
  • AppWizard and MFC to build containers
  • Container and control interaction

• Licensing and Distribution Issues
  • Commercializing an ActiveX control
  • Licensing, distribution and localization (for international markets)

• Threads
  • Threading models (single, apartment, and multiple) supported by ActiveX
  • ActiveX controls in a multi-threaded environment

• Optimization
  • Optimizing the performance of ActiveX controls
  • Windowless controls, delayed activation and drawing optimizations, and MFC support

• Miscellaneous
  • Subclassing an ActiveX control from a standard windows control, keyboard handling, and more

• ActiveX Controls and the Internet
  • Active X controls in an HTML page
  • Internet security, scripting languages for manipulating Active controls and layouts
  • ActiveX control pad

• Introduction to ATL
  • ActiveX Template Library (ATL)
  • ATL Object Wizard
  • ATL COM AppWizard
  • Basic classes in ATL

ACTIVEX CONTROLS