VB OCX & AxHost : Ful lFrameWork to Compact FrameWork

[Romain TAILLANDIER]

Hi group

I have some fonctionalities available in an OCX created with VB6. I have
import it in a Full FrameWork project dependencies, and it is usable throw 2
dll named Interop.MyOcxName.dll, and AxInterop.MyOcxName.dll. as it allways
do when i include OCX.
this two dll are using the AxHost class to make my OCX fonctionnalities
available.

Now i try t use the OCX under Compact FrameWork, How can i do ?
the AxHost class seems not be available under CF.
I can't add the .ocx in the reference on smart device projects. seems the
case of all COM components (is ocx a COM component ? guess yes)

Is there alternatives ?

Now my OCX is a locker. It protect my software against illegal copy or
pracy. It is allow me to give some Key for allowing or not my final users to
access some fonctionalities (same as a shareware or evaluation soft, which
are locked after 30 days).
Do you know some free software who did that under CF ?

Thank
ROM

 

[Peter Foot [MVP]]

The .NET Compact Framework v1.0 does not support hosting COM/ActiveX
controls. Odyssey software have CFCOM which provides an interop layer for
ActiveX / IDispatch controls but it is rather pricey. I'm not aware of any
free libraries to provide the functionality you required. In The Hand's
Identity provides basic key based registration
(http://www.inthehand.com/dotnet/identity/)

Peter

 

[Romain TAILLANDIER]

Thank you peter for your help.

I have foun TLBEXP.EXE and TLBIMP.EXE in the Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
2003\SDK\v1.1\Bin directory.
It allow to convert an ocx into a dll and vice versa.

but that dll seems to not work on CF. I don't try it on the FullFrameWork.
did you use it ?
could it help me ?

Thaks
ROM

 

[Peter Foot [MVP]]

These tools are for the full desktop framework only.

Peter

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Peter Foot
Windows Embedded MVP
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