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A Real-Time VB6 ActiveX News Control - Introduction

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This article was contributed by Mitchell Harper from devArticles.com. If you're after free programming eBooks you canclick here, or you can click here for daily developer news.

A while back, I wrote an article about MoreOver.com and their XML news sources (which are free for developers using them for non-profit purposes. For all other uses, you have to pay). Today, I want to take that idea one step further and create an ActiveX component that will use the MoreOver.com news feeds in a similar way. The component will use the XMLHTTP library and the MSXML parser to retrieve and process the news. This article will also act as a good introduction to ActiveX controls if you have never created one before.

To fully benefit from this article, you should have Visual Basic 6 installed on your machine, as well as the MSXML 4 library, which is available from this site.

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  • Interesting example

    Posted by /\/\@ on 10 Jul 2002

    Good example.

    This is the first time played with any xmlhttp feeds, and found the example whet my appetite for more! The code was not quite complete, but if you are familiar with vb then you shoul...

  • hrmmmmm

    Posted by koz on 17 Apr 2002

    I've went thru the listing a few times, and it is not working for me at all....

    Things I noticed, the For loop he uses has no Next statement

    I'm probably overlooking something ....any suggestio...

  • Posted by James Crowley on 13 Apr 2002

    hmmm... yes... it seems the author hasn't released the entire VB project for the control. The hand icon will in fact be in your VB installation directory (in something like Shared/Icons/ along with th...

  • Posted by gregdirst on 12 Apr 2002

    I see the images for the article, but not any hand images.

  • Posted by James Crowley on 12 Apr 2002

    don't you see any images on http://www.developerfusion.com/show/2273/2/ ? Try hitting refresh on your browser.... :)