Overview: Creating an ActiveX Control Container

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An ActiveX Control Container is a parent program that supplies the environment for an ActiveX (formerly OLE) control to run. You can create an application capable of containing ActiveX controls with or without MFC, but it is much easier to do so with MFC.

Creating an MFC container program using the MFC AppWizard allows you to access the many features of ActiveX controls and Automation that are implemented by the MFC and ActiveX classes. These features include visual editing, Automation, creating compound files, and support for controls. The MFC AppWizard visual editing options that your parent program will support include creating a container, a mini-server, a full-server, and a program that is both a container and a server.

There are three types of applications you can create an ActiveX container for:

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