I hope this is the right forum for this question.

I have an activeX control that I developed in Visual basic but it uses a C++ Com object (as well as a few other things). All together three are about 10 modules that get included in the .CAB file that gets created. I have two questions regarding this...

First, is it ok to bundle all the modules from my site, even those that it asks if you want to download from microsoft site? What I'm concerned about is, if a user on the web downloads my control and the control carryies other things with it, like the module that contains the scripting engine for the filesysemobject, and the version I have bundled in my .CAB is less recent than the version they have installed, will this revert THEIR system?

I guess what I'm asking in a nutshell is if the cab file has a version of a component that is less recent than the version of the component the client already has installed...what happens?

Second, my cab is sorta big. Is there a message that the webbrowser can display to let the client know that the download is still going on. On my system you get the initiial message asking permission to download a cab file but it doesnt tell you when that download is complete.

Any responses on this will be appreciated.

trinitron