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DownloadX ActiveX Download Control is a free download manager ActiveX control used to download files from the Internet or Intranet. To speed up the downloading process, DownloadX will split each. For the first time you access the IP camera or DVR/NVR, the Internet Explorer (IE8, 9, 10) need to be installed with ActiveX plugin. The ActiveX plugin can allow browser receive the video streaming from these IP devices. If the installation of ActiveX bar doesn't pop-up, then you need to change three ActiveX controls in your Internet Setting of IE. Run the IE browser, go to 'Tools', then select 'Internet Options' to change your ActiveX controls.

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Our web browser plugin works fine in IE9 and IE10 but in IE11 the plugin is neither recognized as an add-on or allowed to run. It's as if IE11 no longer supports ActiveX.

Surely there is a workaround but what do we need to change?

NOTE: this questions is asked as the developer of the plugin and not the end-user who might need to correct IE settings!

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IE displays a active x warning and ask for permission if you allow it to run or not. To overcome this the only solution is to;

  1. Open Internet Explorer.
  2. Click the Tools menu, and then click Internet Options.
  3. On the Security tab, click the Custom level button.
  4. Scroll down the Security Settings list until you see ActiveXcontrols and plug-ins.
  5. For Automatic prompting for ActiveX controls, click Enable.
  6. Scroll down to Download signed ActiveX controls and click Enable orPrompt.
  7. Scroll down to Run ActiveX controls and plug-ins and click Enable orPrompt.
  8. Scroll down to Script ActiveX controls marked safe for scripting andclick Enable or Prompt.
  9. Click OK, and then click OK again.

There is no way to overcome this issue except changing manually Internet explorer settings. Try checking if plugin works fine while changed settings. If its still not working or not showing any warning is display try checking console for other errors which are not related to active x. Good luck!

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There is no solution to this problem. As of IE11 on Windows 8, Microsoft no longer allows ActiveX plugins to run in its browser space. There is absolutely nothing that a third party developer can do about it.

A similar thing has recently happened with the Chrome browser which no longer supports NPAPI plugins. Instead Chrome only supports PPAPI plugins which are useless for system level tasks once performed by NPAPI plugins.

So developers needing browser support for system interactive plugins can only recommend either the Firefox browser or the ASPS web browser.

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Does IE11 displays any message relative to the blocked execution of your ActiveX ?

You should read this and this.

Use the following JS function to detect support of ActiveX :

SébastienSébastien

Here's how I got it working:

  1. Include your URL in IE Trusted Sites

  2. run gpedit.msc (as Admin) and enable the following setting:

gpedit->Local->Computer->Windows Comp->ActiveX Installer->ActiveX installation policy for sites in Trusted Zones

Enabled + Silently,Silently,Prompt

  1. Run gpupdate

  2. Relaunch your Browser

NOTES: Windows 10 EDGE don't have trusted sites, so you have to use IE 11. Lots of folk moaning about that!

AdeyAdey

We started finding some machines with IE 11 not playing video (via flash) after we set the emulation mode of our app (web browser control) to 110001. Adding the meta tag to our htm files worked for us.

RDHRDH

Try this tag on the pages that use the ActiveX control:

Unsigned Activex Control Windows 10

Note: this has to be the very first element in the <head> section.

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In my IE11, works normally.Version: 11.306.10586.0

We can test if ActiveX works at IE, in this site: http://www.pcpitstop.com/testax.asp

Bruno YuzoBruno Yuzo

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ActiveX
Original author(s)Microsoft
Developer(s)Microsoft
Initial release1996; 23 years ago
Websitemicrosoft.com/com/tech/activex.asp

ActiveX is a software framework created by Microsoft that adapts its earlier Component Object Model (COM) and Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) technologies for content downloaded from a network, particularly from the World Wide Web.[1] Microsoft introduced ActiveX in 1996. In principle, ActiveX is not dependent on Microsoft Windows operating systems, but in practice, most ActiveX controls only run on Windows. Most also require the client to be running on an x86-based computer because ActiveX controls contain compiled code.[2][page needed]

ActiveX is still supported as of Windows 10 through Internet Explorer 11, while ActiveX is not supported in their default web browser Microsoft Edge (which has a different, incompatible extension system) and will be compatible with the new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge using IE Mode.

ActiveX controls[edit]

ActiveX is one of the major technologies used in component-based software engineering.[3] Compared with JavaBeans, ActiveX supports more programming languages, but JavaBeans supports more platforms.[4] ActiveX is supported in many rapid application development technologies, such as Active Template Library, Delphi, JavaBeans, Microsoft Foundation Class Library, Qt, Visual Basic, Windows Forms and wxWidgets, to enable application developers to embed ActiveX controls into their products.

Many Microsoft Windows applications—including many of those from Microsoft itself, such as Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Visual Studio, and Windows Media Player—use ActiveX controls to build their feature-set and also encapsulate their own functionality as ActiveX controls which can then be embedded into other applications. Internet Explorer also allows the embedding of ActiveX controls in web pages.

History[edit]

Faced with the complexity of OLE 2.0 and with poor support for COM in MFC, Microsoft simplified the specification and rebranded the technology as ActiveX in 1996.[5][6] Even after simplification, users still required controls to implement about six core interfaces. In response to this complexity, Microsoft produced wizards, ATL base classes, macros and C++ language extensions to make it simpler to write controls.

Starting with Internet Explorer 3.0 (1996), Microsoft added support to host ActiveX controls within HTML content. If the browser encountered a page specifying an ActiveX control via an OBJECTtag (the OBJECTtag was added to the HTML 3.2 specification by Charlie Kindel, the Microsoft representative to the W3C at the time[7]) it would automatically download and install the control with little or no user intervention. This made the web 'richer' but provoked objections (since such controls, in practice, ran only on Windows, and separate controls were required for each supported platform: one for Windows 3.1/Windows NT 3.51, one for Windows NT/95, and one for Macintosh F68K/PowerPC.) and security risks (especially given the lack of user intervention). Microsoft subsequently introduced security measures to make browsing including ActiveX safer.[8]

For example:

  • digital signing of installation packages (Cabinet files and executables)
  • controls must explicitly declare themselves safe for scripting
  • increasingly stringent default security settings
  • Internet Explorer maintains a blacklist of bad controls

ActiveX was controversial from the start; while Microsoft claimed programming ease and good performance compared to Java applets in its marketing materials, critics of ActiveX were quick to point out security issues and lack of portability, making it impractical for use outside protected intranets.[9] The ActiveX security model relied almost entirely on identifying trusted component developers using a code signing technology called Authenticode. Developers had to register with Verisign (US$20 per year for individuals, $400 for corporations) and sign a contract, promising not to develop malware. Identified code would then run inside the web browser with full permissions, meaning that any bug in the code was a potential security issue; this contrasts with the sandboxing already used in Java at the time.[10]

Platform support[edit]

In October 1996, Microsoft released a beta version of the ActiveX Software Development Kit (SDK) for the Macintosh, including a plug-in for Netscape Navigator on the Mac, and announced its plan to support ActiveX on Solaris later that year.[11] Six months and two more beta releases later, there had yet to be any commercially available Macintosh ActiveX plugins.[12]

In 1997, NCompass Labs in cooperation with Microsoft released a plug-in for Netscape Navigator to support ActiveX.[13]

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Documentation for ActiveX core technology resides at The Open Group and may be downloaded free.[14]

Despite Microsoft's previous efforts to make ActiveX cross-platform, most ActiveX controls will not work on all platforms, so using ActiveX controls to implement essential functionality of a web page restricts its usefulness. South Korea has started to remove this technology from their public websites in order to make their web site accessible to more platforms.[15]

While Microsoft made significant effort to push the cross-platform aspect of ActiveX by way of publishing the API, ultimately the cross-platform effort failed due to the ActiveX controls being written in C or C++ and being compiled in Intel x86Assembly language, making them executable only on Windows machines where they can call the standard Win32 APIs.[16]

Microsoft dropped ActiveX support from the Windows Store edition of Internet Explorer 10 in Windows 8. In 2015 Microsoft released Microsoft Edge, the replacement for Internet Explorer with no support for ActiveX, this marked the end of the technology in Microsoft's web browser development.[17]

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ActiveX in non-Internet Explorer applications[edit]

It may not always be possible to use Internet Explorer to execute ActiveX content (e.g., on a Wine installation), nor may a user want to.

  • Mozilla ActiveX Control was last updated in late 2005, and runs in Firefox 1.5.[18]
  • ScriptActive for Netscape Navigator last updated in 1997 can run ActiveX controls but requires a special HTML tag.[13]
  • Google Chrome ActiveX Control is available through the utilization of the IE Tab Extension for Google Chrome, which allows the use of a special 'IE Tab,' an emulation of Internet Explorer within the Chrome application. The IE Tab displays a second address bar and processes ActiveX protocols normally. Enabling ActiveX protocols allows Chrome users access to a variety of interactive dynamic websites like game and business web applications.

Other ActiveX technologies[edit]

Microsoft has developed a large number of products and software platforms using ActiveX objects. They are still used (e.g., websites still use ASP):

  • Active Scripting (formerly known as ActiveX Scripting) is the technology used in Windows to bridge scripting engines like JScript, VB Script or ActivePerl and hosting applications like Internet Explorer, Active Server Pages, or third party applications that implement a scripting host.
  • ActiveX Document is a Microsoft technology that allows users to view and edit Microsoft Word, Excel, and PDF documents inside web browsers.
  • Active Messaging, later renamed Collaboration Data Objects
  • Active Server Pages (ASP)
  • ActiveMovie, later renamed DirectShow
  • ActiveX Data Objects (ADO)
  • ActiveX Streaming Format (ASF), renamed Advanced Streaming Format, then to Advanced Systems Format

See also[edit]

  • Active Template Library (ATL)
  • Browser Helper Object (BHO)
  • Google Native Client – an alternative development from Google
  • IUnknown interface
  • Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface (NPAPI) – an alternative interface for web-browser plugins
  • Silverlight (XAP)
  • XAML Browser Applications (XBAP)

References[edit]

  1. ^'Introduction to ActiveX Controls'. MSDN. Microsoft. Archived from the original on 14 May 2016. Retrieved 1 June 2016.
  2. ^Anderson, Jerry (1997). Activex Programming with Visual C++. Que. ISBN978-0-7897-1030-7.
  3. ^Cai, Xia, et al. 'Component-based software engineering: technologies, development frameworks, and quality assurance schemes.' Software Engineering Conference, 2000. APSEC 2000. Proceedings. Seventh Asia-Pacific. IEEE, 2000.
  4. ^Hughes, Merlin (1 March 1997). 'JavaBeans and ActiveX go head to head'. JavaWorld. IDG. Archived from the original on 15 March 2016.
  5. ^'Using ActiveX with LabVIEW – Examining Mission Editor Version 1.0'. NI Developer Zone. National Instruments. 13 August 2007. Archived from the original on 28 February 2008. Retrieved 12 March 2009. The term ActiveX surfaced in the Microsoft world in early 1996.
  6. ^'Microsoft announces ActiveX Technologies'. News Center. Microsoft. 12 March 1996. Archived from the original on 12 February 2017. Retrieved 11 February 2017. Microsoft Corp. today announced ActiveX … Technologies, which make it easy for the broadest range of software developers and Web designers to build dynamic content for the Internet and the PC. … ActiveX Technologies form a robust framework for creating interactive content using software components, scripts and existing applications. Specifically, ActiveX Technologies enable developers to build Web content easily using ActiveX Controls (formerly OLE Controls), active scripts and active documents. … ActiveX Technologies are available in the form of the Microsoft ActiveX Development Kit, which is being distributed to more than 4,000 developers attending the Professional Developers Conference in San Francisco today.
  7. ^'Chapter 2'. www.w3.org. Retrieved 29 August 2019.
  8. ^'Activating ActiveX Controls'. Activating ActiveX Controls. 18 April 2006. Archived from the original on 19 April 2006. Retrieved 16 June 2009.
  9. ^'ActiveX technology: You can't go there today'. InfoWorld. 19 May 1997. pp. 90 ff.
  10. ^Dugan, Sean (19 May 1997). 'Exposing the ActiveX security model'. InfoWorld. p. 98.
  11. ^Quinlan, Tom (28 October 1996). 'MacOS will get access to ActiveX'. InfoWorld. p. 48.
  12. ^'After 6 months, ActiveX passive in Mac market'. Vol. 11 no. 15. MacWEEK. 11 April 1997. Archived from the original on 12 April 1997.Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
  13. ^ ab'Playing with plug-ins'. Computerworld. IDG Enterprise. 7 April 1997.
  14. ^'Documentation for ActiveX Core Technology'. The Open Group. Archived from the original on 10 October 2012. Retrieved 7 August 2012.
  15. ^'Seoul poised to remove ActiveX software from public websites'. Yohap News Agency. 3 March 2015. Archived from the original on 22 March 2015.
  16. ^'Will ActiveX Threaten National Security?'. WIRED. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
  17. ^Keizer, Gregg (10 May 2015). 'Microsoft nixes ActiveX add-on technology in new Edge browser'. Computerworld. IDG. Archived from the original on 14 May 2015.
  18. ^'Mozilla Control'. 29 April 2011.

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