I invite you to follow those steps to perform that.Walkthrough Create an OCX customized control, either using Visual C++6.0 or Visual Basic 6.0 or download one from the internet, any one because the purpose here is to step through the manner of hosting it within a given Windows .Net application. (In my case, I ran the research on local machine for a given OCX and I have chosen the MSFlexGrid.ocx control and a testing control. Copy and paste your control in the root drive say the C:\ Open the command prompt by browsing to Start>All programs>Accessory>Command prompt then type those couple of lines as bellow: The aximp that stands for ActiveX Control Importer is used in this case. It does the conversion type definitions according to COM type library for an OCX control into a standard Windows Forms control. Because Windows Forms can only host Windows Forms controls and not any other control types at any cases including the OCX ones, Of Corse. Aximp.exe generates a wrapper like the RCW the runtime callable wrapper class for an ActiveX control that can be hosted on a Windows Form. This is the only way that allows the OCX use. As the figure above shows, there is a new generated dll called MSFlexGridLib.dll located in C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Bin. Create a new Windows application project. Add a reference to this dll by going to the solution explorer, right clicking on the project and selecting Add reference menu item.Figure 1 Select browse tab as follow :Figure 2 As you can remark, the reference to your new generated dll is added.Figure 3 Now, add the namespace using AxMSFlexGridLib; then add this couple of code within the load event handler stub as under:private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { AxMSFlexGrid oGrid = new AxMSFlexGrid(); oGrid.Visible = true; oGrid.Parent = this; oGrid.Dock = DockStyle.Fill; oGrid.CellBackColor = Color.Bisque; oGrid.Cols = 7; oGrid.Rows = 30; } Finally, run the application.Figure 4That's itGood Dotneting !!!
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