ActiveX EXE & DLL

[razzaj]

I have been into COM for a while only Developping ActiveX DLLs
they are neat...

but now I have more time for research and I am looking at activeX EXEs ... they seem interesting but I wonder why they are rarely used...

I might be wrong but I have never seen any application Deploying activex EXEs . they all use DLLs.

i know that Exe run out of process and that Dll run In process...
but what is the real difference between the 2 .

Which one is better and in what case ?

[spetnik]

Well, the in-process/out-of-process is a big deal, but an active-x exe has to entry points, one as a dll and one as an exe, so it can also be run as an external application. (MS-Word is an active-x exe, as are all of the office apps)

[razzaj]

ok ... good... so if I put a form in My activeX Exe project and a winsock on this form ...

Can I use the winsock control from ASP for example ?? like a COM object that is... ?

[spetnik]

I believe so. Shouldn't be a problem. I would use MTS, though.

[razzaj]

MTS ?? what do you mean ?

I know MTS is mostely used for Database and Transactions ... what does winsock have to do with it ?

Besides you cannot use MTS with ActiveX EXE....it has to be a dll

[spetnik]

yes, u r right. dont know why i thouught u can uuse it w/ an exe. sorry