ActiveX Control w/ db access on webpage

So here's the deal. I'm trying to write an application which is used to monitor the contents of a sql database, in real time, over the internet. My main requirement is that it can run over the internet in a browser and can be used by any user (does not have to have be in the domain of the server) and the user interface needs to be quite nimble, which is why i'm not leaning towards ASP on this one. I did a similar version of this application in VB as a standard .exe, but this version i need to just be able to run in a browser.

With that in mind, I thought that maybe an ActiveX Control would do the trick for this project, so I created a prototype which would just pull up a list from the database. The prototype works fine on my machine, but on any other machine, the activeX control just doesn't come up (probably because I didn't include any error handling).

Anyway, is it possible to set up the activeX control to allow any user to use the database? I also had the same trouble when i tried creating an activeX control which tried to instantiate a COM object. If anyone has any experience with this, it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Costin

Doesn't the activeX control have to be registered on everyones comp who uses it? I've never fooled with the net much so i'm not sure.