After Office 2024 launches in October, Microsoft will disable ActiveX controls by default in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio client apps. ActiveX is a legacy software framework introduced in 1996 ...

KB 3008923 crashes IE, KB 3002339 still hanging on install, KB 2986475 still pulled -- but there's a small silver lining Overnight, Microsoft pulled two high-profile screwed-up patches: KB 3011970 and ...

I'm trying to have a checkbox in an Excel spreadsheet populate other cells based on the values of other cells and the cell that the checkbox resides in. I can't figure out how in VB I can find out the ...

Milford, MI January 8, 2004—Sapia Inc. introduces SMTX: an ActiveX control that brings Modbus/TCP Master functionality to Excel, VB 6.0, VC++ and other applications. Within minutes, SMTX allows any ...

Microsoft Office has supported ActiveX for years as an option for extending and automating documents, but it has also been a significant security vulnerability. Microsoft is finally starting to turn ...