title: Using ActiveX Com Components with nodejs. Is it possible
body: <p>Is there a way to use any ActiveX com components with nodejs?</p>
  
  <p>Actually, I would never need this but I'm running nodejs on Windows and trying to send ping requests without forking new processes (no such module exists for Windows).</p>
  
  <p>As some Activex components exist for sending ping requests with raw sockets, maybe I can use them.</p>
  
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  <p>An example of how you can create a COM object from JavaScript is:</p>
  
  <pre><code>var rs = new ActiveXObject("ADODB.Recordset");
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