What is the future of ActiveX Document?

[sue]

Hello everybody,

I came across a lot of questions regarding how to open the ActiveX Document VBD file in the client machines. As everybody else, I have the same old question. I read a lot of articles (including MSDN as well as the KB
articles and etc.), but none of them seems to solve the particular question. I tried the suggestions from the others, but all of
them failed. And the same question coming out again and again. Therefore, I doubt about the future of the ActiveX Document.

Do you think that Microsoft will finally drop ActiveX document? Is it worth to devote time to look into this ActiveX Document?

Thank you.

Sue

[Lothar Haensler]

IMHO there is no future for ActiveX Docs.
We tried to develop a few of them.
Yes, it is easy to create ActiveX Docs, but distributing those apps is a nightmare.

And, go out on the internet and show me ONE site that uses ActiveX Docs. I haven't found one yet.

IMHO, the world ignores ActiveX Docs and uses (D)HTML or Java.

ActiveX in a Web app makes sense to me only as long as you use COM components on the server.

[sue]

Thank you for your opinion.

I did try to include the runtime library in the distribution package, but it wasn't worked. Setting the security to the lowest level wasn't worked neither.

Yes, you are right. I couldn't find any ActiveX Docs site out there. It might be wise to concentrate in the other technologies such as DHTML or JAVA or ASP. Seems like I have to give up ActiveX Docs.

[Chris Eastwood]

The only place where I can possibly think of using an ActiveX document is for a VB Add-in. You can use them to obtain the 'floating' form effect (like the project explorer etc).

Apart from that - they really suck ;-)


Chris Eastwood

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[Lothar Haensler]

That's a good point. I only found a hint about that in MSDN yesterday.

also, DocObjects might be OK if your host is an MS Office Binder.

They simply suck in a Web application.