Activex

ActiveX

ActiveX is a framework for defining reusable software components in a programming language-independent way (i.e. not tied to a particular programming language). Software applications can then be composed from one or more of these components in order to provide their functionality. It was introduced in 1996 by Microsoft as a development of its Component Object Model (COM) and Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) technologies and is commonly used in its Windows operating system, although the technology itself is not tied to it.