.NET technology is the programming basis of the .NET environment you use to build, deploy, and run Web-based applications, smart client applications, and XML Web services. You must install .NET. Refer to the Microsoft Learn website for more information about installing .NET.

ActiveX refers to Microsoft's ActiveX technology and OLE technology. With ActiveX Automation, a Windows-based application, such as LabVIEW, provides a public set of objects, commands, and functions that other Windows-based applications can access. Refer to the Microsoft Learn documentation for more information about ActiveX.

• Inside OLE, by Kraig Brockschmidt, second edition
• Essential COM, by Don Box

Refer to ActiveX and LabVIEW at ni.com for more information about using ActiveX with LabVIEW.