F. Scott Barker’s Microsoft Access 2002 Power Programming

Appendix B. Getting Started with ActiveX Controls

IN THIS APPENDIX

• Working with ActiveX Controls 2

• Counting the Days with the Calendar Control 6

• Using a Standard Interface with the Common Dialog Control 13

ActiveX controls (called OLE controls before Access 97) provide a way for you to give users advanced, yet standard, interfaces, including applications developed in different languages such as VBA and xBase (FoxPro). For ActiveX controls, these languages provide containers in which the separate ActiveX server applications (OCXs) can run.

Note

ActiveX controls from Microsoft vary from the old OLE controls not only in name, but also in form. ActiveX controls are designed with the ActiveX control framework and are called lightweight, which means that ...