IAxWinAmbientDispatch Interface

This interface provides methods for specifying characteristics of the hosted control or container.

interface IAxWinAmbientDispatch : IDispatch

Remarks

This interface is exposed by ATL's ActiveX control hosting objects. Call the methods on this interface to set the ambient properties available to the hosted control or to specify other aspects of the container's behavior. To supplement the properties provided by IAxWinAmbientDispatch, use IAxWinAmbientDispatchEx.

AXHost will try to load type information about IAxWinAmbientDispatch and IAxWinAmbientDispatchEx from the typelib that contains the code.

If you are linking to ATL90.dll, AXHost will load the type information from the typelib in the DLL.

See Hosting ActiveX Controls Using ATL AXHost for more details.

Requirements

The definition of this interface is available in a number of forms, as shown in the table below.

Definition Type

File

IDL

atliface.idl

Type Library

ATL.dll

C++

atliface.h (also included in ATLBase.h)

See Also

Reference

IAxWinAmbientDispatchEx Interface

IAxWinHostWindow Interface

CAxWindow::QueryHost

AtlAxGetHost

Other Resources

IAxWinAmbientDispatch Members