Overview of ActiveX/Visual Basic Support

Visual Basic 5 and 6 with the Classic Agent

Silk Test Classic provides built-in support for testing ActiveX controls and Visual Basic 5 and 6 native controls with the Classic Agent. These controls can be embedded in:

  • Visual Basic 5 and 6 applications
  • Other 32-bit Windows applications
  • HTML Web pages

In addition, you can test more than one application at a time.

Visual Basic 4 with the Classic Agent

If you are testing Visual Basic 4 applications with the Classic Agent, you do not have access to properties and methods in native controls, just ActiveX controls. Since most Visual Basic 4 native controls map to Windows native controls, you can use Silk Test Classic’s class mapping feature to test native controls.

Visual Basic with the Open Agent

The Open Agent does not provide dedicated support for testing ActiveX controls and native Visual Basic controls. However, the Open Agent supports mapping Visual Basic native controls to custom controls, by using the Win32 technology domain and the Custom Controls dialog box.