ActiveX Documents

Distribution of the UserDocument is rather hard. Once you upload all of the files generated by setup to the server, and the loading page, you're done. (HEHE, had you going didn't I?) Actually, distribution is very easy. The loading page you wrote along with the cab file does all the work. If the user needs a certain runtime, or OCX, the cab file tells the browser to download it from Microsoft, and automatically sets it up for the user. It's simple, just the way it should be. Now, when you update, and recompile the project. Upload all of those files again. The only thing you need to change is the version number in the Object tag of the loading page, to what the new version number is, say 1.0.0.0 to 1.0.1.0 (VB only uses three numbers in it's version, so the last one is always 0). If the user doesn't have the most current version, the browser gets it for them, along with any new or changed runtimes. Well that's about it for distributing this thing. So I'll wrap it up on the next page.