ActiveX Document

<h2 id="code-contracts">Code contracts</h2>
There are a few code contracts that ActiveX documents and their container need to implement in order to communicate about their capabilities and requirements.
An ActiveX document server application needs to implement the following code contracts that are expected by an ActiveX document container that is going to host the document:<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6">6</a>

<ul><li>IPersistStorage, if use compound files as the storage</li>
<li>Standard OLE interfaces like IPersistFile, IOleObject, and IDataObject, for creating a document that supports object linking and embedding from file</li>
<li>IOleInPlaceObject and IOleInPlaceActiveObject, for editing inline</li>
<li>IOleDocument, IOleCommandTarget, and IPrint, for talking to document container, command routing, and printing</li></ul>
An ActiveX document container application needs to implement the following code contracts<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7">7</a>

<ul><li>Provide storage for documents via IStorage</li>
<li>Implement IOleClientSite and IAdviseSink, for standard object linking and embedding</li>
<li>Implement IOleInPlaceSite and IOleInPlaceFrame, for editing inline</li>
<li>Implement IOleDocumentSite, IOleCommandTarget, IPrint and IContinueCallback, for document hosting, command routing and printing</li></ul>
<h2 id="developer-support">Developer Support</h2>
Microsoft has ActiveX Document support in its developer tools to help programmers in creating ActiveX Document applications.
In <a href="/facts/Visual_C%2B%2B/RM3sbYw5">Visual C++</a>, programmers can include <a href="/facts/Microsoft_Foundation_Classes/J2N5pas5">Microsoft Foundation Classes</a>'s support for ActiveX Documents in the MFC project wizard. A programmer can choose to add ActiveX document server and/or container support to the new program by checking a checkbox during the project creation process.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8">8</a>
In <a href="/facts/Visual_Basic/7QMXM6fP">Visual Basic</a>, ActiveX Document Migration wizard helps programmers to convert VB forms into ActiveX documents.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9">9</a>
In <a href="/facts/Visual_FoxPro/yLCCj4HM">Visual FoxPro</a>, The ActiveDoc Base Class supports development for ActiveX document servers.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10">10</a>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1">"Definition of ActiveX Documents". <a href="https://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia_term/0,2542,t=ActiveX+Documents&i=37473,00.asp" target="_blank">https://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia_term/0,2542,t=ActiveX+Documents&i=37473,00.asp</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:2">Microsoft readies DocObject; technology will allow document editing in Web browsers, InfoWorld, April 29, 1996, page 49 <a href="http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-18241137/microsoft-readies-docobject-technology.html" target="_blank">http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-18241137/microsoft-readies-docobject-technology.html</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:3">Microsoft promises compound documents. (Win95 Suites Set to Clash) by Greenberg, Ilan, InfoWorld June 5, 1995 http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-17053478/microsoft-promises-compound-documents.html <a href="http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-17053478/microsoft-promises-compound-documents.html" target="_blank">http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-17053478/microsoft-promises-compound-documents.html</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:4">Menus in Active Documents, Visual FoxPro 7.0 documentation, by Microsoft https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa903362(v=VS.71).aspx <a href="https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa903362(v=VS.71).aspx" target="_blank">https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa903362(v=VS.71).aspx</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:5">Microsoft promises compound documents. (Win95 Suites Set to Clash) by Greenberg, Ilan, InfoWorld June 5, 1995 http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-17053478/microsoft-promises-compound-documents.html <a href="http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-17053478/microsoft-promises-compound-documents.html" target="_blank">http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-17053478/microsoft-promises-compound-documents.html</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:6">The Visual Programmer Puts ActiveX Document Objects Through Their Paces, by Joshua Trupin, Microsoft Systems Journal, June 1996, http://www.microsoft.com/msj/archive/S37B.aspx <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Systems_Journal" target="_blank">/wiki/Microsoft_Systems_Journal</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:7">Active Document Containers, Visual Studio 2012 documentation, by Microsoft, https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/644x1yy6.aspx <a href="https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/644x1yy6.aspx" target="_blank">https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/644x1yy6.aspx</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:8">Compound Document Support, MFC Application Wizard, Visual Studio 2012 documentation, by Microsoft, https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fa2f8zdk.aspx <a href="https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fa2f8zdk.aspx" target="_blank">https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fa2f8zdk.aspx</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:9">You can't go there today. (ActiveX application development; Microsoft's Visual Basic 5.0 and Visual C++ 5.0, Borland's Delphi 3.0) by Blumenthal, Holly, InfoWorld | May 19, 1997 http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-19431766/you-cant-go-there.html <a href="http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-19431766/you-cant-go-there.html" target="_blank">http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-19431766/you-cant-go-there.html</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:10">Creating an Active Document, Visual Studio 7.0 documentation, by Microsoft https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa903396(v=vs.71).aspx <a href="https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa903396(v=vs.71).aspx" target="_blank">https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa903396(v=vs.71).aspx</a> <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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