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Title: ActiveX .AX files
Post by: Mark Jones on March 31, 2005, 02:51:01 PM
Hi, just curious, it looks like ActiveX files have a Win32 PE header. Can MASM32 create these? Google isn't much help, thanks. :)
Title: Re: ActiveX .AX files
Post by: Tedd on April 01, 2005, 10:41:25 AM
I think they are literally just PE files.
What the actual contents are is a slightly different matter :bdg
Title: Re: ActiveX .AX files
Post by: sluggy on April 01, 2005, 11:01:31 AM
Quote from: Mark Jones on March 31, 2005, 02:51:01 PMit looks like ActiveX files have a Win32 PE header.
Yeah, they do. They are just COM dlls in disguise. You should have no problem creating them in MASM, you just got to know which interfaces you have to implement, as ActiveX components are usually created with a HLL the specs for those interfaces may be hard to come by.