Dan Appleman's. Developing activex components with Visual Basic 5.0: a guide to the perplexed

1. Activex myths -- 2. Activex: a historical (but technical) perspective -- 3. Objects and visual basic -- 4. The component object model: interfaces, automation, and binding -- 5. Aggregation and polymorphism -- 6. The life and times of an ActiveX Component -- 7. ActiveX components: What's in a nema? -- 8. The project -- 9. Creating and testing components -- 10. Code and classes-beyond the manuals -- 11. Events -- 12. Collecting objects -- 13. Object lifetime -- 14. Multithreading -- 15. Bringing It all together: The stockQuote Server -- 16. ActiveX control fundamentals -- 17. The UserControl Object -- 18. The extender and ambient objects -- 19. The wonderful world of properties -- 20. property pages and others -- 21. ActiveX controls and the internet -- 22. Advanced techniques -- 23. ActiveX document fundamentals -- 24. ActiveX documents and the internet -- 25. Versioning -- 26. Licensing and distribution.