2445Creating a Server Component with Visual Basichttp://www.15seconds.com/issue/980930.htmserver-side ActiveX components should not be confused with client-side ActiveX components. A client-side ActiveX component is sent through a network, along with the HTML information, and will only run on Microsoft?s Internet Explorer. Client-side ActiveX components compete with Java components and do not work with Netscape browsersASP > Tips and Tutorials > Component BuildingOct 10, 2006
HttpBrowserCapabilities is a class present in the System.Web namespace. To use it you don't have to create new instance of this class, simply use the one provided by Page.Request.Browser property within the ASP.NET page.
server-side ActiveX components should not be confused with client-side ActiveX components. A client-side ActiveX component is sent through a network, along with the HTML information, and will only run on Microsoft?s Internet Explorer. Client-side ActiveX components compete with Java components and do not work with Netscape browsers
ActiveX DLL for a customer and his website is hosted on a third party server, how are you going to register and unregister the component without having to request the server administrator to do it for you. The latter may even have reservations about this for security or other business reasons
Before beginning I will assume that you have read ASP Component in Visual Basic tutorial and are comfortable with creating simplest of COM component using Visual Basic. If you are not then I recommend having a look at that tutorial because it covers the basics of creating COM component and after reading it you will be able to better understand the following tutorial.
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