Activex
ActiveX is designed to ensure that different applications use the same functions. The best example of this is the ActiveX spell checking object. Instead of writing two separate spell-checking programs, a single spell-checking object was created to ensure that functionality is shared between different Microsoft applications such as Word and PowerPoint. ActiveX technology was developed in the form of Object Linking and Embedding (OLE). With OLE, simple functions such as cut and paste could be shared by different applications....