Developer's Guide to Web Application Security

Introduction

ActiveX controls are Microsoft’s implementation of the Component Object Model

(COM). Microsoft designed ActiveX to replace the older Object Linking and

Embedding (OLE) model that was used in earlier versions of the Windows platform.

ActiveX is an improvement on OLE in that it adds extensibility to the model and

allows for distributed computing (DCOM) and better performance in local applica-

tions. ActiveX controls are commonly written in either Visual Basic or C++.They

are apparent throughout the Windows platform and add many of the new interactive

features of Windows-based applications, especially Web applications.They fit nicely

into HTML ...