 | Programmatically Register/Unregister OCXs and Active X DLLs |
|
| Use the built in DllRegisterServer and
DLLUnregisterServer functions in the OCXs and DLLs: |
| Declare
Function RegMyDLL Lib "MyDll.dll" Alias "DllRegisterServer" () As Long |
| Dim lReturn as
Long |
| Return =
RegMyDll() |
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| How do I unregister my ActiveX Exe? |
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| You normally register your ActiveX Exe by running it.
You can also run it with the command line parameter: /regserver |
| MyActiveX.exe /regserver |
| To Unregister it, run it with the /unregserver
command line parameter: |
| MyActiveX.exe /unregserver. |
|
| How can I register/unregister OCXs using the Windows Explorer Right Click
Context Menu |
|
| Download the RegUnRegOCXs
reg file to your computer. Doubleclick it to install it in the registry. |
|
| Get a Free Copy of Visual Basic. |
|
| Download the Free VB Control Creation Edition from
Microsoft at: VB Updates |
|
| Convert a VB 3/VB 4-16 program to VB 5/VB 6 |
|
| See our VB 3 page. |
|
| Convert a VB 5 program to VB 6 |
|
| Normally you can just open your VB 5 program with VB 6.
However, some of the Windows Common controls should be upgraded. Use the VB 6 ActiveX Upgrade
Utility. |
|
| Convert a VB 6 program back to VB 5 (Open a VB 6 program with VB 5) |
|
| o This should not be a problem if you are
not using any of the VB6
New features. |
| o You can convert some of the New
VB6 Functions to VB 5 versions of Split, Join, Replace and Filter. |
| o Open the VB 6 project with VB 5. VB 5
will complain about some lines in the VBP Project File. Open the VBP file
with notepad, delete these lines, save it and open again in VB 5 until there are no
complaints. |
| o If you are using Class
files, open each class file with notepad. Delete the all the lines between BEGIN and END except the line "MultiUse = -1 'True " |
|
| Running VB 5 and VB 6 on the Same Computer |
|
| See the Microsoft Knowledge Base Artices: Q217017 and Q190253 |
|
| Get the Runtime Files for All Versions of Visual Basic: |
|
| Download the runtimes from Microsoft at: VBRuntime. |
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