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by pushpop 2474 days ago
As much as I think VisualBasic gets a lot of unfair criticism, I really don’t think the OCX model is something worth admiring. Sure, when it worked it was great but all too often they would fail between OS updates, language patches or even just installing other applications if they happened to use different OCXs. What’s more, those bastard files required registry hacks to work.

If anything, OCX is an example of how not to do shared libraries.