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description: "Learn more about: Containers for ActiveX Controls"
title: "Containers for ActiveX Controls"
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# Containers for ActiveX Controls

You can use ActiveX controls developed in Visual C++ in other applications, as long as they support ActiveX control containment. A number of Microsoft applications, beginning with the versions listed, support ActiveX control containment.

>[!IMPORTANT]
> ActiveX is a legacy technology that should not be used for new development. For more information about modern technologies that supersede ActiveX, see [ActiveX Controls](activex-controls.md).

> [!NOTE]
> The following list is not a complete list of applications that support ActiveX controls but represents the set used most often in testing:

Applications that support ActiveX control containment include:

- Internet Explorer 3.x and greater

- Visual Basic 4.x and greater

- Visual C++ 4.x and greater

- Access 95 and greater

- Excel 97 and greater

- Word 97 and greater

- Access 97 and greater

- FrontPage 97 and greater

- PowerPoint 97 and greater

- Visual InterDev 97 and greater

The following are non-Microsoft applications that support ActiveX control containment:

- PowerBuilder

- Delphi

- C++ Builder

- NCompass Plug-in for Netscape Navigator

## See also

[ActiveX Control Containers](activex-control-containers.md)