Visual Studio problems - please help!

[Cam]

When I use the menu command Project>Add to Project>Components and Controls VS opens the gallery window as it should, but it is empty. No ActiveX controls are listed. I checked the path, and it is opening into the 'Gallery' folder. So, in my attempts to figure out what the heck is up, I tried to add a (known) ActiveX control from my C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32 folder. Visual Studio complained that the control was not registered. So, I fired up the ActiveX Control Test Container to check out what controls are registered. The Test Container listed quite a few controls; all of the controls that should be listed in my Gallery window. Anyway, as I see it, this all proves one thing...the ActiveX controls are all registered correctly on my computer, but for some reason Visual Studio doesn't know how to find them...any suggestions? I'm running Windows2000, and I have the latest VS update, for all that's worth. Thank you very much for any help, I'd really like to have this functioning like usual.:(( ~Cam Desautels

[Alvaro Mendez]

This is a good question. It's happened to me in the past as well and I've never known why. I hope someone has an answer. Regards, Alvaro

[Prem Kumar]

Hi Search for the following topic in MSDN, It might be of some help. "Reusing Code Topics"

[Cam]

Yes, i had actually checked out a number of these topics, but I did find something interesting:

The Gallery regenerates links to registered ActiveX controls every time you open it, based on the current state of the registry. This has certain implications: If you delete a link to a registered ActiveX control, the link will still appear the next time you open the Gallery. If you delete a registered ActiveX control (.OCX or .DLL file), but do not unregister it, the link will still appear the next time you open the Gallery. Of course the link will be inoperative. If you copy an ActiveX control to your machine, but do not register the file, the link does not appear because the Gallery does not recognize the control.

...anyway, the important part is that the list is regenerated from the registry. I figured as much, but that doesn't explain the problem...grr...