COM object sent over network

Can a COM object like an ActiveX control be sent over the network to a client and run on that client? What I am trhinking of is a server application where theclient needs to know the progress of an action that the server is performing. So can the server create an object(ActiveX) and send that object to the client and that ActiveX object that is sent is a progress dialog. The server would have control of that ActiveX object updating the progress indictor, is this possible?

Thanks

IMHO you should not send an object form the server, but instead raise an event (RaiseEvent) in the server object and let the client deal with it.
This is done in all ADO asynchronous operations...

ActiveX control can be automatically download to client machine when it is reference by Internet Explorer.