Re: Making an ActiveX control out of an executable

You are most welcome. I should also point you towards
"Inside OLE" by Kraig Brockschmidt. I suspect you might
find it useful...

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"Thore Karlsen [MVP DX]" <sid@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 10:49:43 -0700, "Alexander Nickolov"
> <agnickolov@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>You don't need a separate executable if you implement
>>an ActiveX Document server. The same executable can
>>be coded to execute standalone as well. Check for the
>>/Emebedded command-line switch on startup.
>>
>>If you export functions from your executable to be loaded
>>from another process, it's essentially a DLL with the .EXE
>>extension. Yes, you can code such a strange hybrid.
>
> Ah, so it is maybe possible. That's what I was hoping.
>
>>Note that your object will be more complex as it should deal
>>with the fact you're either in a standalone process or in your
>>client's process. The location of your message pump and
>>message handling differs. I've never attempted anything
>>like that, so can't give you much specific advice...
>
> Yes, obviously I would have to make several changes. Still, that would
> be easier and faster than maintaining two separate projects with
> essentially the same code.
>
> I just got "ATL Internals", so I think I'll read through that and see if
> that can give me some pointers. It's time to try to understand the
> details. Thanks for the pointers.
>
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> Be seeing you.


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