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A Real-Time ActiveX News Control

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

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By: Mitchell Harper

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December 22, 2001

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A Real-Time ActiveX News Control
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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 http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/default.asp?url=/downloads/sample.asp?url=/msdn-files/027/001/766/msdncompositedoc.xml

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