Adding an ActiveX Designer to the Development Environment

To add an ActiveX designer to the development environment, an end user takes these steps:

1. Clicks Components on the Project menu to open the Components dialog box.
2. Clicks the Designers tab in the Components dialog box.
3. Selects one or more ActiveX designers, as shown in the following figure, and clicks OK.

To find out which ActiveX designers are available, Visual Basic searches the system registry for entries that contain the ActiveX designer component category. Using the class identifiers (CLSIDs) and strings of these entries, it creates the list of ActiveX designers in the Components dialog box. The end user selects ActiveX designers from the box; the selected designers subsequently appear on the submenu displayed when the user clicks the Add ActiveX Designer command on the Project menu.