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Visual Basic 5.0: Creating ActiveX Controls

Course Overview

Students will learn how to use Visual Basic 5.0 to create ActiveX controls for deployment in ActiveX-capable container applications Visual Basic, Internet Explorer, Excel, PowerPoint, Visual C++, and so on.

Prerequisites

Visual Basic 5.0 Introduction or equivalent knowledge.

Benefits

Students will learn how to identify the "big picture" of ActiveX technologies and ActiveX controls; design professional-quality ActiveX controls; add properties and property persistence to ActiveX controls; add methods and events to ActiveX controls; code, test, and debug ActiveX controls; add finishing touches to ActiveX controls; compile and run ActiveX controls; distribute ActiveX controls; and create ActiveX controls for the Web.

Target student

Students should already understand Visual Basic programming.

We offer a range of Visual Basic training courses

ActiveX controls The big picture
  • ActiveX The big picture
  • ActiveX controls
  • Creating ActiveX controls with Visual Basic 5.0
Designing the control
  • The DPD ActiveX control creation process
  • Designing the ImageCap control
Programming the control Adding custom properties
  • Adding properties to the ImageCap control
  • Implementing property persistence for the ImageCap control
Programming the control Adding custom methods
  • and events
Programming the control Coding, error handling,
  • testing, and debugging
Programming the control Finishing touches
  • Using ambient and extender properties to enhance ImageCap
  • Adding property pages to the ImageCap control
  • Customizing the ImageCap Properties window
  • Providing help for your ImageCap control users
  • Adding an About box to the ImageCap control
  • Assigning a Toolbox bitmap to the ImageCap control
Programming the control Compiling and instantiating
  • Compiling the ImageCap control to an OCX file
  • Instantiating the compiled ImageCap control
Distributing the ImageCap control
  • Distributing ActiveX controls
  • Creating a disk/network distribution setup for ImageCap
  • Creating an Internet/Intranet distribution setup for ImageCap
  • ActiveX control distribution issues
Creating ActiveX controls for the Web
  • How ActiveX controls are deployed on the Web
  • Web-specific ActiveX control-creation issues
  • Customizing the ImageCap control for the Web
  • Using VBScript to script the ImageCap Web control
 
Publisher: Microsoft
Version: 5
Length: 3 days
Course-ID: 047502

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