ActiveX SDK Contents

Overview of the ActiveX SDK: This document describes the Microsoft® ActiveX™ Software Development Kit (SDK), available support for the SDK, and the ActiveX Control Pad (a new utility). It also outlines the steps required to enable your ActiveX Controls for the Internet.
ReadMe: This document contains late-breaking news about ActiveX and the SDK. The document also includes all known issues and problems with the SDK components, samples, and documentation.
Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 HTML Reference: This reference describes the construction of interactive documents based on the open HTML 3.2 standard. It describes the elements necessary to create the basic HTML document, and also explains HTML lists, tables, frames, objects, ActiveX Controls, and so on.
ActiveX Controls: This document describes ActiveX Controls, an extensible solution for creating objects that can be inserted universally into Web pages, Microsoft Visual Basic® applications, and other OLE-enabled documents and applications.
Scripting Services: This document contains a description of how to use Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition or other scripting languages to add interactive action to Web pages through OLE Automation.
Object Model for Scripting: This document introduces the Internet Explorer scripting object model, a structure for embedding VBScript and JScript commands or programs inside HTML documents. The object model is fully compatible with Netscape LiveScript/JavaScript. The object model is also accessible from any "pluggable" scripting language that integrates with the ActiveX Scripting framework.
ActiveX Scripting: This document introduces a new way to add scripting and OLE Automation capabilities to programs. ActiveX Scripting allows "script hosts" to call upon "pluggable" scripting engines from multiple sources and vendors to perform scripting between components. The script itself--language, syntax, persistent format, execution model, and so on--is left to the script vendor.
ActiveX Documents: This document describes ways to create new document viewers that can be hosted from various OLE Document Object containers such as Microsoft Internet Explorer.
Web Browsing Objects: This document describes WebBrowser, the Microsoft Internet Explorer ActiveX control that developers can use to embed Internet browsing capabilities inside their applications, and WebBrowserApp, an OLE Automation object that developers can use to control the stand-alone Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) application from within another application.
Microsoft Win32 Internet Programmer's Reference: This reference describes the Win32 Internet (WinInet) functions, which provide stand-alone applications with easy access to standard Internet protocols such as Gopher, FTP, and HTTP, abstracting the protocols into a high-level interface that is familiar to Win32 developers.
Microsoft Java VM Software Development Kit: This document describes the mechanism of calling between Java™ and native (typically C or C++) code using the Microsoft Virtual Machine for Java. Also described is the close integration between Java and COM, the ActiveX Component Object Model.
Internet Data Download Services: This document describes the interfaces and functions that support downloading data from Internet locations (URLs).
Signing with Microsoft Authenticode Technology: Microsoft and other software vendors have proposed a new security standard that uses digital signatures to provide shrink-wrap-like accountability for potentially dangerous code downloaded from the Internet. Digital signatures associate a software vendor's name with a file, thus assuring some level of accountability for the software. This is an open standard, and it will be used to sign all forms of executable code on all platforms, including ActiveX Controls, Netscape plugins, and platform-dependent Java classes. This section in the ActiveX SDK explains how to digitally sign files with the new Authenticode™ technology. For additional references to Authenticode specifications and documentation, visit the Authenticode site.
Internet Shortcuts API Reference: This document explains the Internet Shortcuts API for managing "shortcuts" to URL locations.
Internet Ratings API Reference: The Platform for Internet Content Selection (PICS) is a W3C group chartered to define a standard for the creation of rating systems and rating information. PICS is the open W3C standard for solving the problems with minors accessing adult content on the Internet. This document describes how to support ratings on the Microsoft Internet Explorer platform. It is intended for HTML authors who wish to support PICS ratings on their site, and also for programmers who are developing Web authoring or viewing tools and applications.
WebPost API Reference: This reference describes the WebPost API, which allows authoring tools and other applications to easily post Web pages (files) to any Internet Web site. The WebPost functions can be used to connect to an Internet Service Provider (ISP), determine the protocol needed to copy the files, and so on. These functions can also display a wizard to guide the user through posting a file.
Cabinet (.cab) File Technology: Data Compression and Disk Layout: This document describes a technology you can use to store multiple files in a single cabinet (.cab) file, perform compression across file boundaries, and permit files to span cabinets. While existing products such as PKZIP, LHARC, and ARJ support some of these features, combining all three does not appear to be common practice. This technology also supports self-extracting archives by simply concatenating a cabinet file to Extract.exe.
ActiveX Conferencing: This document explains the interface for programmers to control the ActiveX conferencing system components included in Microsoft NetMeeting. This API allows managing conferencing information, sharing applications, and transferring data using standard Internet conferencing protocols.
Microsoft Crypto API: This documentation describes the application programming interface (API) that your Win32 application can call in order to support cryptography.