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    a beginner question ...

    hi everybody, i'm a beginner in VB and this things ...
    could anyone explain me what is COM and ActiveX for?
    thanks in advance.
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    Hyperactive Member Simon Caiger's Avatar
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    Take a look at the three part VB World tutorial by Karl Moore.

    It's very good.
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    The idea behind ActiveX is to allow you to create controls and components which could be reused throughout any project written in any language.

    Class Modules are built for re-usability -the idea of having a class which you could add-into any project you work on is taken to the next stage with ActiveX as you could create a dll etc file which could be called from vb, c++ - any language you're working on!

    There's several fantastic tutorials (as mentioned above) here:
    http://vbworld.com/activex/

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