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How to use an ActiveX control in a winform.

vishruth vasistha

Hi,

I have designed a Winform in VS 2008 and now i want to use a activeX control (from a .ocx file ) on this Winform.

Please tell me how to do this.

Thanks in advance,
Vishruth

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Mahesh Chand16y ago
Did you try adding reference to OCX in your project? Did you check recommended articles in the right side of this post?

C# and ActiveX DLL

ActiveX control using C#

Windows Forms provide AxHost class that can be used to wrap an ActiveX control and work as an object. Here is an article.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/9d0714y1(VS.71).aspx