ActiveX in VC++ without MFC?

Question

I'm wondering if it is possible to create an ActiveX control without using the MFC ActiveX that is provided in VS2010? I prefer to do the code entirely from scratch without any predefined or generated content. All the guides on ActiveX are based on using MFC and all the generated code is quite confusing and hard to get a grasp on and fully understand.

I am also not very used to the MFC syntax, I am looking for something akin to standard c++ against the win32 api. As I understand it, ActiveX components can be developed in other languages aswell apart from MFC, such as C. I would like to use standard C/C++ but I can't find any resources on how to do a very minimal ActiveX from scratch.

Hope I made it clear enough.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Another alternative is to use ATL. Making an ActiveX control from scratch without any frameworks is far from trivial.