{"id":34983,"date":"2005-07-08T10:00:22","date_gmt":"2005-07-08T10:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2005\/07\/08\/the-best-book-on-activex-programming-ever-written\/"},"modified":"2005-07-08T10:00:22","modified_gmt":"2005-07-08T10:00:22","slug":"the-best-book-on-activex-programming-ever-written","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20050708-22\/?p=34983","title":{"rendered":"The best book on ActiveX programming ever written"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was introduced to the glory that is the world of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrbunny.com\/\">Mr. Bunny<\/a> many years ago. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrbunny.com\/mbgtax.html\">Mr. Bunny&#8217;s Guide to ActiveX<\/a> is probably the best book on ActiveX programming ever written.<\/p>\n<p> If you haven&#8217;t figured it out by now, it&#8217;s a humor book, but it&#8217;s the sort of madcap insane geek humor that has enough truth in it to make you laugh more. <\/p>\n<p> My favorite is the first exercise from the first chapter: Connect the dots.  (Warning: It&#8217;s harder than it looks!) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was introduced to the glory that is the world of Mr. Bunny many years ago. Mr. Bunny&#8217;s Guide to ActiveX is probably the best book on ActiveX programming ever written. If you haven&#8217;t figured it out by now, it&#8217;s a humor book, but it&#8217;s the sort of madcap insane geek humor that has enough [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-34983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>I was introduced to the glory that is the world of Mr. Bunny many years ago. Mr. Bunny&#8217;s Guide to ActiveX is probably the best book on ActiveX programming ever written. If you haven&#8217;t figured it out by now, it&#8217;s a humor book, but it&#8217;s the sort of madcap insane geek humor that has enough [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}