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ActiveX

ActiveX. Dr. Horia F. Pop , Associate Professor Department of Computer Science, “Babes-Bolyai” University RO-3400 Cluj-Napoca, Romania E-mail: hfpop@cs.ubbcluj.ro Web: http://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/~hfpop. Advanced Educational Technologies Workshop Tempus SJEP 12518-97

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ActiveX

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  1. ActiveX Dr. Horia F. Pop, Associate Professor Department of Computer Science, “Babes-Bolyai” University RO-3400 Cluj-Napoca, Romania E-mail: hfpop@cs.ubbcluj.ro Web: http://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/~hfpop Advanced Educational Technologies Workshop Tempus SJEP 12518-97 “Petru Maior” University, Targu Mures, Romania October 6 - 10, 1998

  2. ActiveX • Fundamentals of Internet and ActiveX • Components of ActiveX • Developing ActiveX Controls • Issues and Future of ActiveX Dr. Horia F. Pop, Associate Professor, "Babes-Bolyai" University

  3. I. Fundamentals of Internet & ActiveX • Computers and Internet Today • Internet’s Future with ActiveX Dr. Horia F. Pop, Associate Professor, "Babes-Bolyai" University

  4. Computers and Internet Today • Connectivity Versus Computing • Connectivity: Retrieving Internet-Based Information • Computing: Generating New Information Locally • Connectivity and Computing Are Different Things • Why Computing and Connectivity Have Not Mixed • Why Computing and Connectivity Will Be Mixed Soon Dr. Horia F. Pop, Associate Professor, "Babes-Bolyai" University

  5. Internet’s Future with ActiveX • Combining Connectivity with Computing • How Is ActiveX Different from Java? • How Does ActiveX Fit into the Big Internet Picture? • How the Internet and the Web Changes with ActiveX • The Internet Today • The World Wide Web Today • The Internet and Web with ActiveX Dr. Horia F. Pop, Associate Professor, "Babes-Bolyai" University

  6. II. Components of ActiveX • The Components of ActiveX • ActiveX Documents • ActiveX Controls • ActiveX Scripting • ActiveX Internet Information Server Dr. Horia F. Pop, Associate Professor, "Babes-Bolyai" University

  7. The Components of ActiveX • ActiveX Controls: Building Blocks of ActiveX • Can Compute and Manipulate Data • Can Communicate • Save Programming Effort • ActiveX Scripting with Visual Basic Script • Is Easy to Learn • Is a Powerful Communicator • Program and File: ActiveX Documents • OLE Editing, Anytime, Anywhere • One Program, Many Uses • ISAPI Filters: ActiveX Technology for Web Servers Dr. Horia F. Pop, Associate Professor, "Babes-Bolyai" University

  8. ActiveX Documents • Problems of New Information and New File Formats • HTML for Everything • Make a Helper Application • Make a Plug-In Module • Make a Java Applet • ActiveX Documents: The Best of All Worlds • How ActiveX Documents Work • The Benefits of ActiveX Documents Dr. Horia F. Pop, Associate Professor, "Babes-Bolyai" University

  9. ActiveX Controls • What are ActiveX Controls and Their Advantages • How Java Applets Work • How ActiveX Controls Work Differently • Creating ActiveX Controlsfrom Scratch • Using ActiveX Controls Within Web Pages • What ActiveX Controls Enable Dr. Horia F. Pop, Associate Professor, "Babes-Bolyai" University

  10. ActiveX Scripting • What is Web Page Scripting? • Why Scripting is Useful? • What About JavaScript? • What Is ActiveX’s VBScript? • The Benefits of VBScript • How VBScript Works • What VBScript Can Control Dr. Horia F. Pop, Associate Professor, "Babes-Bolyai" University

  11. ActiveX Internet IS • The Power and Ease of ActiveX-Enabled Web Servers • Increased Power and Potential • Increased Ease and Simplicity • Integration with Existing Technologies • The differences Between CGI and ISAPI • CGI Versus ISAPI • CGI Scripts Versus ISAPI Filters • How ISAPI Filters Are Made Dr. Horia F. Pop, Associate Professor, "Babes-Bolyai" University

  12. III. Developing ActiveX Controls • ActiveX Controls and Visual Basic Script • Specific ActiveX Controls Dr. Horia F. Pop, Associate Professor, "Babes-Bolyai" University

  13. ActiveX Controls and Visual Basic Script • Why a Scripting Language? VBScript • Embedding ActiveX Objects on a Web Page • The <OBJECT> Tag • Specifying Object Parameters • Control Pad • Introduction to VB Script • Adding Script to HTML • VBScript Features • VBScript and HTML • The Main Event • Assigning Events in HTML • Form Control Properties • VBScript and ActiveX Controls • ActiveX Properties and Methods • ActiveX and Events Dr. Horia F. Pop, Associate Professor, "Babes-Bolyai" University

  14. Specific ActiveX Controls • Using the ActiveMovie Control • ActiveX DocObjects: Internet and Intranet Aware Applications • ActiveX ISAPI Filters: Controlling the IIS • ISAPI Extensions: Developing Web Applications Dr. Horia F. Pop, Associate Professor, "Babes-Bolyai" University

  15. IV. Issues and Future of ActiveX • Applications of ActiveX • ActiveX Versus Java • ActiveX Online Resources Dr. Horia F. Pop, Associate Professor, "Babes-Bolyai" University

  16. Applications of ActiveX • Online Multimedia With ActiveX • Singing and Dancing Web Pages • New Types of Web-Based Multimedia • Replacing Traditional Helper Applications with ActiveX • Web-Based Applications with ActiveX • Searching the Real World with the Web • Playing Games on the Web • Educational Kiosks Through ActiveX Dr. Horia F. Pop, Associate Professor, "Babes-Bolyai" University

  17. ActiveX Versus Java • Technological Goals • Java Pursuits • ActiveX Pursuits • Effective Results • What Java Brings • What ActiveX Brings • What Does It All Mean? • Security • Practical Usage • Development Strategy • Decisions • The Crossroads Dr. Horia F. Pop, Associate Professor, "Babes-Bolyai" University

  18. Official Information Sources • Internet Development Homepage (http://www.microsoft.com/intdev) • ActiveX Table of Contents (http://www.microsoft.com/intdev/tocl.htm) • ActiveX Component Connection Page (http://www.microsoft.com/devonly/community/cbisv_9.htm) • Internet Component Download Page (http://www.microsoft.com/intdev/signcode/codedwld.htm) • Visual Basic Scripting Edition Page (http://www.microsoft.com/vbscript/default.htm) Dr. Horia F. Pop, Associate Professor, "Babes-Bolyai" University

  19. Unofficial Information Sources • NCompass Laboratories (http://www.ncompasslabs.com) • Microsoft List of ActiveX Newsgroups (http://www.microsoft.com/intdev/resource/news.htm) • Brian Johnson’s Visual Basic Script Information Page (http://home.sprynet.com/bjjohnson/vbs.htm) • Vijay Muhki’s Technology Watch Page (http://www.neca.com/~vmis) Dr. Horia F. Pop, Associate Professor, "Babes-Bolyai" University

  20. General Web Information • The Web Overview/W3C (http://www.ww3.org) • Web Info/EARN (http://www.earn.com/gnrt/wwww.html) • Thomas Boutell’s Web FAQ (http://www.sunsite.unc.edu/boutell/faq/www_faq.html) • Yahoo Web (http://www.yahoo.com/Computers/World_Wide_Web) • Yahoo Internet (http://www.yahoo.com/Computers/Internet) • HTML Specification 3.0 (http://www.hpl.hp.co.uk/people/dsr/html/Contents.html) • MacMillan Computers Publishing (http://www.mcp.com) Dr. Horia F. Pop, Associate Professor, "Babes-Bolyai" University

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