Having no requirement to be located on a form or window they are ideal for the development of back end server applications and other non visual software components. Instances of these classes can be created, used and destroyed as required anywhere within your application code. Within Visual Basic instances of these classes can be created using the New statement or the CreateObject function and destroyed either automatically when they go out of scope or explicitly by setting the obejct variable to Nothing.

The advantages of using ActiveX DLLs are:

• Do not need to be located on a form or window (i.e. created at design time).
• No need to handle arrays of controls and all of the code associated with such arrays.
• Objects can be created where and when they are required within your application.
• References to objects can be passed around as any other variable.
• Objects can be automatically destroyed as they go out of scope.

Currently we offer a Windows Registry component , a DNS/ETRN SMTP component , a MIME/SMTP component, a RAS/DUN component and an HTTP component. Coming up soon is a DLL version of SocketSet.