An ActiveX Control is a visual component that is UI centric. These files have an OCX extension and can be hosted by any ActiveX Container. VFP, VB, IE, Office Apps, Visio, etc are all capable of hosting an OCX Control.

COM Components - also known as ActiveX Servers - are non-visual and typcially are non-ui centric. Although, you can have COM Components geared towards specific UI Implementations. This is the n-tier situation when you have a UI-UI Objects-Business Rule Objects-Data Service Objects.

COM Components are either in-proc DLL's or out-of-proc EXE files.

Does this clarify things???



>What's the difference between an ActiveX control and a COM Component/ActiveX >DLL?