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> Can anyone out there recommend a good book that they have used to learn
> about ActiveX. Do the HP-VEE 5.0 books explain how to use ActiveX to
> dump data into Excel?
>
> Any suggestions will be appreciated..


     I haven't seen these books yet, so I can't recommend them. I can only
     suggest that you have a look:


     Automation Programmer's Reference
     Microsoft Corporation

     ISBN:      1-57231-584-9
     Pages:     496
     Price:     $24.99 US
     Release:   2/26/97
     Level:     Int/Adv
     http://mspress.microsoft.com/ORDER/book ... le_id=1303


     Microsoft Office 97/Visual Basic Programmer's Guide (Greg's earlier
     recommendation)
     Microsoft Corporation
     ISBN:      1-57231-340-4
     Pages:     560
     Price:     $34.99 us
     release:   12/27/96
     Level:     Int/Adv
     http://mspress.microsoft.com/prod/books/477.htm


     ActiveXTM Controls Inside Out, Second Edition
     Adam Denning
     ISBN:      1-57231-350-1
     Pages:     672
     Disk:      1 CD
     Price:     $39.95 US
     Release:   1/8/97
     Level:     Int/Adv
     http://mspress.microsoft.com/prod/books/172.htm


     Understanding ActiveXTM and OLE
     David Chappell
     ISBN:      1-57231-216-5
     Pages:     352
     Price:     $22.95 US
     Release:   9/17/96
     Level:     Beg/Int
     http://mspress.microsoft.com/prod/books/901.htm


     You can visit http://mspress.microsoft.com and search for ActiveX to find
     many more references.

     Regards,

          Bruce Wenner
          HP St. Paul

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VRFuser May 11, 1998 11:23 PM

Hello everyone,

I am currently using HP-VEE 4.01 with Win NT 4.0.

I use DDE to dump data to Excel , but I keep hearing that ActiveX is the
way to go.

Can anyone out there recommend a good book that they have used to learn
about ActiveX. Do the HP-VEE 5.0 books explain how to use ActiveX to
dump data into Excel?

Any suggestions will be appreciated..
Thanks

Damian Goderich

Hughes Space & Communications Group

El Segundo, CA
dgoderich@earthlink.net

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VRFuser May 12, 1998 8:38 PM

from: Greg Goebel
to:   VRF-Damien Goderich
date: Wed 13 May 1998

Hi All:

ActiveX has some unpleasant resemblances to
DDE, in that it gives VEE support the "ship in the
bottle" dilemma: While we know about VEE we
don't know much about the target applications
(and even when we do are entirely at the mercy
of MSoft or whoever "waiving the rules"), and that's
where the complexity arises.

ActiveX has some very pleasant dissimilarities
with DDE, however, in that it is a lot better thought
out and more robust, and it appears to be getting
off to a good start for being well documented.

We are still new to the technology ourselves but we
have been recommended by the lab guys a book that
looks like it will be extremely valuable:

   Microsoft Office97/Visual BASIC Programmer's Guide
   Microsoft Press
   ISBN 1-57231-340-4

This outlines control of major MS Office applications
with Visual BASIC. The same rules should apply to VEE,
since it uses a similar syntax.

We are hoping to contrive some documentation to
ensure that people can readily translate Visual BASIC
example programs for ActiveX Automation to VEE. My
hunch right now is that there will be a lot of available
documentation available on ActiveX published in
bookstores, and it is likely that they will mostly use
Visual BASIC as the control program. If we can come
up with a clear guide to converting such programs to
VEE standards (the Formula Box syntax for VEE was
designed to be similar to Visual BASIC for ActiveX
applications) then we shouldn't be in the same situation
as we were with DDE, which might also rightfully
be regarded as standing for:

   Damned Dim Explanations.

[%%] regards -- gvg

dgoderich@earthlink.net wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I am currently using HP-VEE 4.01 with Win NT 4.0.
>
> I use DDE to dump data to Excel , but I keep hearing that ActiveX is the
> way to go.
>
> Can anyone out there recommend a good book that they have used to learn
> about ActiveX. Do the HP-VEE 5.0 books explain how to use ActiveX to
> dump data into Excel?
>
> Any suggestions will be appreciated..
> Thanks
>
> Damian Goderich
>
> Hughes Space & Communications Group
>
> El Segundo, CA
> dgoderich@earthlink.net

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Hello everyone,

I am currently using HP-VEE 4.01 with Win NT 4.0.

I use DDE to dump data to Excel , but I keep hearing that ActiveX is the
way to go.

Can anyone out there recommend a good book that they have used to learn
about ActiveX. Do the HP-VEE 5.0 books explain how to use ActiveX to
dump data into Excel?

Any suggestions will be appreciated..
Thanks

Damian Goderich

Hughes Space & Communications Group

El Segundo, CA
dgoderich@earthlink.net
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from: Greg Goebel
to:   VRF-Damien Goderich
date: Wed 13 May 1998

Hi All:

ActiveX has some unpleasant resemblances to
DDE, in that it gives VEE support the "ship in the
bottle" dilemma: While we know about VEE we
don't know much about the target applications
(and even when we do are entirely at the mercy
of MSoft or whoever "waiving the rules"), and that's
where the complexity arises.

ActiveX has some very pleasant dissimilarities
with DDE, however, in that it is a lot better thought
out and more robust, and it appears to be getting
off to a good start for being well documented.

We are still new to the technology ourselves but we
have been recommended by the lab guys a book that
looks like it will be extremely valuable:

   Microsoft Office97/Visual BASIC Programmer's Guide
   Microsoft Press
   ISBN 1-57231-340-4

This outlines control of major MS Office applications
with Visual BASIC. The same rules should apply to VEE,
since it uses a similar syntax.

We are hoping to contrive some documentation to
ensure that people can readily translate Visual BASIC
example programs for ActiveX Automation to VEE. My
hunch right now is that there will be a lot of available
documentation available on ActiveX published in
bookstores, and it is likely that they will mostly use
Visual BASIC as the control program. If we can come
up with a clear guide to converting such programs to
VEE standards (the Formula Box syntax for VEE was
designed to be similar to Visual BASIC for ActiveX
applications) then we shouldn't be in the same situation
as we were with DDE, which might also rightfully
be regarded as standing for:

   Damned Dim Explanations.

[%%] regards -- gvg

dgoderich@earthlink.net wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I am currently using HP-VEE 4.01 with Win NT 4.0.
>
> I use DDE to dump data to Excel , but I keep hearing that ActiveX is the
> way to go.
>
> Can anyone out there recommend a good book that they have used to learn
> about ActiveX. Do the HP-VEE 5.0 books explain how to use ActiveX to
> dump data into Excel?
>
> Any suggestions will be appreciated..
> Thanks
>
> Damian Goderich
>
> Hughes Space & Communications Group
>
> El Segundo, CA
> dgoderich@earthlink.net
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