PRB: ActiveX Control Pack Not Available for Download for Visual C++ CE 6.0 Toolkit from the Windows CE Web Page

ID: Q240880

The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Windows CE Toolkit for Visual C++ 6.0

SYMPTOMS

The Release Notes for the Windows CE Toolkit for Visual C++ version 6.0 include this passage:

ActiveX Controls Missing in Component Gallery

ActiveX controls in Windows CE are not available in the Component Gallery, because the ActiveX Control Pack is not included in this release of the Windows CE operating system.

See the Windows CE web page for an updated ActiveX Control Pack.
However, the Windows CE Web page does not offer an ActiveX Control Pack to download.


CAUSE

No such download opportunity is provided because an ActiveX Control Pack is not available for Windows CE Toolkit for Visual C++ version 6.0 at this time.


STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.


MORE INFORMATION

Workaround

To work around this problem, you have these options:
  • Write the ActiveX controls yourself.


  • Windows CE Toolkit for Visual Basic 6.0 ships with some of the common Windows CE ActiveX controls. You can install this Visual Basic CE Toolkit 6.0 to register and use the controls.


  • Register and use third-party ActiveX controls.


  • Using the source code for the controls that ship with source code, port the Win32 ActiveX controls to Windows CE ActiveX controls.



Steps to Reproduce Behavior

  1. Install Visual C++ 6.0 and Windows CE Toolkit for Visual C++ 6.0.


  2. Using the WCE MFC AppWizard (exe), create a default dialog-based application.


  3. Switch to the Resource View tab for the Project Workspace.


  4. Open the Dialog Resource and right-click on the dialog box to select ActiveX controls.


  5. Note that no Windows CE ActiveX controls are available to be added to the dialog resource.



REFERENCES

See the following MSDN documents:

Windows CE Toolkit for Visual C++, Version 6.0 Release Notes

Windows CE Toolkit for Visual Basic 6.0 Release Notes


© Microsoft Corporation 1999, All Rights Reserved.
Contributions by Vidyanand Rajpathak, Microsoft Corporation

Additional query words:

Keywords : kbdocfix kbdocerr kbActiveX kbCOMt kbCtrlCreate kbVC600 kbWinCE kbCompGallery kbDSupport kbGrpMFCATL
Version : WINDOWS:6.0
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbprb


Last Reviewed: October 15, 1999
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