Re: newbie: How to use the vb5 object browser

On 27 Jun, 13:50, tom <tadams...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

When I try to drop the component [Common Dialog Control]
into a form I get the message "License for this component
not found". I loaded from Visual Studio 97 Enterprise edition
upgrade CD's.

Visual Studio 97? Is that the first of the VB6 editions or the last of
the VB5 editions? Are you using VB5 or VB6? Whatever version it is, if
you performed a full install from your Enterprise upgrade CD and if it
was a valid upgrade (which I assume it must have been otherwise it
would have aborted) then it should have licenced the various controls
that it installed. I don't know whether you have tried manually
registering the control (comdlg32.ocx) using Regsvr, but I do recall
there being occasional Control licence problems both in VB5 and VB6.
Microsoft have a utility that you can download which fixes such
licencing problems. There are two separate utilities, one for VB5 and
one for VB6. Make sure you use the appropriate one. Here's where you
can get them (click the little link on the page under the heading
"MORE INFORMATION" to download the utility and then run it):

This one is for VB5:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/181854/EN-US/

And this one is for VB6:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/194751/

If this doesn't fix your problem, and if manually registering the
control does not work, then you might as a last resort need to
uninstall VB altogether and perform a fresh install. I'm not sure how
you'll go on doing that with your Upgrade version though, so before
you do so you'd better make sure that you have a qualifying full
version of VB to "upgrade from" in case you need to reinstall that
first. That stuff should be seen purely as a "last resort" option
though.

If you still cannot get the CommonDialog Control properly licenced and
working though, it isn't the end of the world because you can easily
use the appropriate API functions to perform the file dialog job
instead (the CommonDialog control is basically just a "wrapper" to
provide you with nice, easy access to those functions without
requiring you to actually use the API in your code). Let me know how
you get on.

Mike




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