You use ActiveX controls just as you would any of the standard built-in controls, such as the CheckBox control. When you add an ActiveX control to a program, it becomes part of the development and run-time environment and provides new functionality for your application.This section provides an introduction and scenarios to help you get started with the ActiveX controls. You will find excellent examples with complete source code to use when developing your applications. Some of the examples are suitable for novices, and some of them use advanced coding techniques.

Zip	Description	Author	Versioin	Level	Site	Date
	XProgBar is a replacement for the MS ProgressBarActiveX control. This progress bar has some advantages over the standard MS one. It allow vertical bars, it repaints more smoothly (mostly because it uses a solid bar rather than blocks), and has better color selection support. Not to mention smaller total package distribution size for your software.	David Crowell	VB 6.0	Intermediate	Home	2000
	Here are 2 easy-to-use vb classes, which enables automatic repositioning/sizing of any control on you resizeable vb-form.	Rene Lang	VB 6.0	Intermediate	n/a	1999
	It is a color picker control, which is similar to thouse found in Microsoft Office 2000 applications. Rating:	Abdul Gafoor	VB 6.0	Advanced	n/a	2000
	This ActiveX control and Demo will allow you to dock your toolbars/forms to a mdiform much in the way in which Visual C++ allows you to.	Jon Richardson	VB 6.0	Intermediate	Home	2000
	An Active-X control that simulates a 7 segment L.E.D display. This control is very flexible to use, you can simply 'send' a value to be displayed or have it act as a counter that can be banked together to form a complete hh:mm:ss display using the 'Underflow' and 'Overflow' events that have been included. Rating:	Don Balmer	VB 6.0	Advanced	Home	2001
	A stack object used to store and retrieve named values with or without hierarchical inheritance.	Andrew Friedl	VB 6.0	Advanced	Home	2000
	SplitPanel is a handy UserControl that can contain two other controls, and will provide a user-adjustable split between them.	David Crowell	VB 6.0	Intermediate	Home	2000
	This is custom made button. There's 18 different style of this button	Night Wolf	VB 6.0	Intermediate	n/a	2000
	This is an ActiveX control that will produce a message box. The MessageBox code is wrapped up in a control, but could quite easily be converted to a DLL depending on your requirements.	John Meller	VB 6.0	Intermediate	n/a	2000
	This code shows how to create your own Analogue clock control in Visual Basic 5 / 6 - no other controls other than the standard VB controls are used.	Stefaan Casier	VB 6.0	Intermediate	Home	1999
	This is a Vertical Menu. It mimics the Microsoft Outlook's Vertical Menu bar which appears on the left of the screen.	Unknown	VB 6.0	Advanced	n/a	1999
	The accompanying files provide several examples of using a subclassing control with Visual Basic to intercept Windows messages. Emphasis is placed on those messages that result in functionality that cannot be obtained through Visual Basic alone. Rating:	SoftCircuits Programming	VB 5.0	Advanced	Home	1997
	A user control resembling a combobox. When the dropdown button is clicked, a browse through a folder treeview to select a directory is displayed. Uses the SHBrowseForFolder function, amongst other APIs.	Tom de Lange	VB 6.0	Advanced	n/a	2000
	This function parses through HTML code and returns an array filled with the tags and their values.	The Frog Prince	VB 6.0	Intermediate	n/a	2000
	This is a partly finished (working) extension to the ListView common control (ver 4.70+) that allows a user to edit all the columns in a control set to Report or List view	Alex Keene	VB 6.0	Intermediate	n/a	1999
	This is a Properties Window Active Control that looks just like the properties window in Visual Basic 6.0. It incorporates a number of advanced classes that are useful in their own right, including a user-drawn edit control and and a user-drawn list box. Very advanced, professional level example of windows programming in VB Rating:	Nathan Moschkin	VB 6.0	Advanced	n/a	2000
	A common user interface feature of VB apps is one or more frames containing a set of radio buttons. This control combines a frame and multiple radio buttons (you can have as many or as few as you'd like) into one OCX.	Pradip P. Bhatt	VB 6.0	Beginner	n/a	2000
	The color syntax control allows you to perform syntax highlighting in its client applications. Included is an article that describes the process of creating Active X controls, using the Color Syntax control as an example. This is a great download for beginners in Active X control development.	Eric Banker	VB 6.0	Beginner	Home	2000
	It is an active X control that allows you to display real time flames in your application. It includes the ability to control the color of the flames and resize the flames display.	Russell Phillips	VB 6.0	Intermediate	n/a	1999
	With this small ActiveX control you can merge the tab control into your project with no need for an external OCX. This control was develped beacuse author only needed a fraction of all functions in the standard VB tab control. Even the focus rectangle in the tabs works. Fully documented.	M. Karathanasis	VB 6.0	Intermediate	Home	2000