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If the browser encountered a page specifying an ActiveX control via an OBJECT tag (the OBJECT tag was added to the HTML 3.2 specification by Charlie Kindel, the Microsoft representative to the W3C at the time [8]) it would automatically download and install the control with little or no user intervention. This made the web "richer" but provoked ...
Version 7 also introduced new string conversion classes. On July 28, 2009, Microsoft released a patch to ATL to fix a bug that could allow ActiveX controls created using ATL to be vulnerable to a remote code execution security flaw. [10] Since Visual Studio 2013 (ATL version 12), all ATL code is static, eliminating the DLL. [11] [12]
It was not included with Windows 7, and was completely discontinued in Windows 8. Microsoft Agent functionality was exposed as an ActiveX control that can be used by web pages. The theory behind the software came from work on social interfaces by Clifford Nass and Byron Reeves at Stanford 's Center for the Study of Language and Information.
OLE custom controls are usually shipped in the form of a dynamic link library with the .ocx extension. In 1996 all interfaces for controls (except IUnknown) were made optional to keep the file size of controls down, so they would download faster; these were then called ActiveX Controls.
Windows Forms, also known as Winforms, is a free, open-source graphical user interface (GUI) class library for building Windows desktop applications, included as a part of Microsoft.NET, .NET Framework or Mono, [2] providing a platform to write client applications for desktop, laptop, and tablet PCs. [3]
One of the largest changes to the Windows API was the transition from Win16 (shipped in Windows 3.1 and older) to Win32 (Windows NT and Windows 95 and up). While Win32 was originally introduced with Windows NT 3.1 and Win32s allowed use of a Win32 subset before Windows 95, it was not until Windows 95 that widespread porting of applications to ...
Active Scripting (formerly known as ActiveX Scripting) is the technology used in Windows to implement component-based scripting support. It is based on OLE Automation (part of COM ) and allows installation of additional scripting engines in the form of COM modules.
CAPICOM Version 2.1.0.3, the latest and last version of CAPICOM, is officially supported on Windows Vista. [2] [3] [4] However, Microsoft has announced that CAPICOM is discontinued and is no longer being developed. Microsoft suggests replacing CAPICOM with .NET Framework's X509 Cryptographic Classes and, in a handful of cases, with Windows API ...