The purpose of this tutorial is to show how to add ActiveX™ controls as graphic objects into a Views application. The example used in this tutorial is actually a very simple application built around an IlvGrapher.

This graphic object is built above the ATL library, and more specifically above the ATL Control Hosting API, which has been available since Version 4.0 of the ATL library. For more information, see the Microsoft documentation.

A knowledge of Views and C++ is a prerequisite to work through this tutorial. While a knowledge of COM and the ATL library is a not a strict requirement, it will allow you to better understand some technical parts of this tutorial.