ActiveX Control Test Container unavailable in VS2008?
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The menu item is present on the Tools menu, but is disabled. I did a full install of VS2008, so it should be available, but ... Has it been pulled? Are there some extra steps required to activate? NOTE: I don't think it matters, but I am running Windows 7 Thx NIK
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The menu item is present on the Tools menu, but is disabled. I did a full install of VS2008, so it should be available, but ... Has it been pulled? Are there some extra steps required to activate? NOTE: I don't think it matters, but I am running Windows 7 Thx NIK
I see the same as you. I'm running XP. I installed VS2008 with all options turned on, but the executable that the tool entry references doesn't exist. Your best bet is probably just to find it in an older release of VS and alter the VS2008 tool definition to point at whichever one you find. The tool itself probably hasn't been modified in years.
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
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I see the same as you. I'm running XP. I installed VS2008 with all options turned on, but the executable that the tool entry references doesn't exist. Your best bet is probably just to find it in an older release of VS and alter the VS2008 tool definition to point at whichever one you find. The tool itself probably hasn't been modified in years.
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
Yeah, I found something to that effect here: http://channel9.msdn.com/forums/TechOff/260742-ActiveX-Test-Container/ However, even after building the old sample code and applying the linker workaround I still encountered run-time issues. I tried upgrading to VS2008 SP1 and grabbed the SP1 samples, but the sample tstcon won't even compile. So it gets worse going forward. I am pretty disgusted with Microsoft right now. Pretty pointless to publish a tutorial that relies on a tool that is no longer supported, and to ship sample code that won't even build let alone run. Thanks for the reply.
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Yeah, I found something to that effect here: http://channel9.msdn.com/forums/TechOff/260742-ActiveX-Test-Container/ However, even after building the old sample code and applying the linker workaround I still encountered run-time issues. I tried upgrading to VS2008 SP1 and grabbed the SP1 samples, but the sample tstcon won't even compile. So it gets worse going forward. I am pretty disgusted with Microsoft right now. Pretty pointless to publish a tutorial that relies on a tool that is no longer supported, and to ship sample code that won't even build let alone run. Thanks for the reply.
Hi all, I've just posted an article on the VC++ blog about this tool. It is still available as a sample in Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010. See the article here: http://blogs.msdn.com/vcblog/archive/2010/03/18/activex-test-container-application-is-still-available.aspx Pat Brenner Visual C++ Libraries Development