This seemed like a cool solution for a little problem I have. But I can't find any documentation on doing this.

It was fairly easy in VB6. And, of course, is a piece of cake with Java (to develop an Applet that is).

But if anyone knows how to stub it out or where I can get some information on creating ActiveX objects (assuming this is the right name in the new .Net world) I would appreciate it!

Thanks

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Well you can't directly, it depends on what you have in mind. You can create a class library and make it COM aware in assembly properties. You can then use it from a COM environment. Look at tlbimp and regasm in the .NET SDK.

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This channel9 article might help you:

http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=32483



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I looked at the channel9 article. It looked easy enough, but it didn't work.

What I wanted to do didn't involve IE but I was planning on using the object in another application that is an ActiveX container.

For my test project (UCOne) I used VS2003 w/.Net 1.1 and created a simple Windows User Control from the template. I changed the background color and added a label ("Hello World") to the control. then I compiled the control.

To test UCOne I opened VS2005 and a project I use for testing windows stuff (WinTest). I referenced UCOne and added it to the Form. (I had to do this manually because the IDE couldn't see it. I'm certain this could be fixed with the right settings, but not worth the effort at the moment.) WinTest compiled and voilet! It worked.

To test UCone in IE I wrote a simple web page and added the object as such:
<object id="ucOne" height="100" width="200" classid="C:\Projects\C-Sharp\LocalLib\UCOne\bin\Release UCOne.dll#UCOne.UserControl1" VIEWASTEXT>
</object>
per the instructions at the Channel9 reference. After allowing ActiveX objects on the web page IE just shows me the "object not loaded" icon.

I tried inserting it into PowerPoint. After creating the object from the ucone.dll file and then attempting to activate the object Dependency Walker opened and read the dependencies on the DLL.

I do have an alternative which is writing a plug-in for the application I want to use this in. I haven't tried that yet, but I'm pretty sure it would work.

I may also try the COM Interoperability route recommended by Joe. If I can develop a template it would be handy for other potential applications.

Any more ideas?




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