The Complete Guide on ActiveX

A loosely defined set of technologies developed by Microsoft. 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.

Download.com -- ActiveX.com
http://www.download.com/PC/Activex/0,271,0-0,00.html
Features a comprehensive library of downloadable ActiveX controls.

TechWeb's ActiveXpress Web site
http://www.webtools.com/
This site hosts hosts a collection of information on ActiveX. It contains links to daily news articles, a collection of controls, developer information, interest groups, trends, product information, and related links.

ActiveX FAQs
http://byte.com/art/9709/sec5/sec5.htm
Contains links to resources for Microsoft's ActiveX Template Library (ATL) and several FAQs for ActiveX.

Byte magazine's special issue on ActiveX
http://byte.com/art/9709/sec5/sec5.htm
Byte magazine's September 1997 issue is devoted to ActiveX, explaining how it works and contrasting it with Java.

Developer.com's ActiveX Directories
http://www.developer.com/directories/pages/dir.activex.html
Links to ActiveX resources such as controls, components, tutorials, graphics, multimedia, network and communications, publications, special effects, tools, and user interface applications and programs.

PC Magazine's Internet Tookit ActiveX site
http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/
Provides links to news stories and articles about ActiveX, as well as sites containing ActiveX Controls, development resources, news stories, and related Web sites.

The Active Group
http://www.activex.org/
Describes the efforts of The Active Group, an open industry association promoting the use of ActiveX core technologies.