ActiveX Controls

[Guest]

I'm looking to be able to write something not too dissimilar to the windows
update website. I would like to be able to have an activex control or
something that I can create a windows and show the status of a download and
potentially upload. I'm not sure how this can be done but I've found
articles that say you can create a windows control, add com interop and use
that on the web page. I have been completely unsuccessfull with this and am
basically lost as to where to go next. Any help would be very much
appreciated.

 

[Alvin Bruney [ASP.NET MVP]]

One approach is to dust off the vb6 compiler and get cracking. it fully
supports activeX controls. once the control is built, simply embed it in a
webpage via the object tag.

 

[Scott Allen]

One approach is to dust off the vb6 compiler and get cracking. it fully
supports activeX controls. once the control is built, simply embed it in a
webpage via the object tag.

Just in time for MS to stick the big fork into VB6
http://rblevin.blogspot.com/2005/03/microsoft-mvps-revolt.html

 

[Guest]

would you have any suggestions on example articles for this. I never really
got much into vb6. I started with .net. I think I'm looking for something
that opens up in a "windows form" window to show status/progress for
upload/download.

I noticed that Microsoft uses cab files too then. I'm just having a hard
time finding GOOD information about this stuff.

 

[Alvin Bruney [ASP.NET MVP]]

if you subscribe to the asp.netpro magazine, jeff prosise wrote an article
about last year that has full source code on that kind of implementation.
basically, he uses a windows control and embeds it into a webform. after
hooking it up for automation, the results are impressive.