Error "You don't have the license required to use this ActiveX control"

[blacst]

I am using Access 2002 with either Service Pack 1 or 3. (I have seen
this problem on 4 different OSs (NT, XP Home, XP Pro, Winows 2000)
across 8 different machines)

I have an ActiveX Object (Microsoft Common dialog Control, version 6)
that, when I attempt add or copy the control in an access application,
I get the above error.

When attempting to use the Microsoft Communications Control, version
6.0 ActiveX object I get the error "The OLE server isn't registered.
To register teh OLE server, reinstall it."

Both Comdlg32.OCX and Comctl32.ocx are present on the machines in the
System32 directory.

I can use any existing CommonDialog ActiveX object that exists in an
Access application. It appears that I can use other Microsoft ActiveX
objects but I can not use any "version 6.0" ActiveX objects.

Any ideas on what I need to do to get them operational again?

[pietlinden]

what are you using the CommonDialog control to do? There's a good
chance you don't need to use an ActiveX control at all.

[Terry Kreft]

There are two types of licencing for ActiveX controls; user licence and
developer licence.

A user licence (which is what you have) allows you to use the control in an
application.

A developer licence allows you to implement a control in an application.

If you previously implemented these controls then you need to re-install the
application which gave you the developer licence (e,g, Visual Dtudio 6).

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Terry Kreft
MVP Microsoft Access
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I am using Access 2002 with either Service Pack 1 or 3. (I have seen
this problem on 4 different OSs (NT, XP Home, XP Pro, Winows 2000)
across 8 different machines)

I have an ActiveX Object (Microsoft Common dialog Control, version 6)
that, when I attempt add or copy the control in an access application,
I get the above error.

When attempting to use the Microsoft Communications Control, version
6.0 ActiveX object I get the error "The OLE server isn't registered.
To register teh OLE server, reinstall it."

Both Comdlg32.OCX and Comctl32.ocx are present on the machines in the
System32 directory.

I can use any existing CommonDialog ActiveX object that exists in an
Access application. It appears that I can use other Microsoft ActiveX
objects but I can not use any "version 6.0" ActiveX objects.

Any ideas on what I need to do to get them operational again?

[blacst]

Terry Kreft,

Thanks that is it! I uninstalled Visual Studio 6 a while ago because I
wasn't using it that much. I will just put it back. Thanks again.

[Larry Linson]

"Terry Kreft" <te*********@mps.co.uk> wrote

If you previously implemented these
controls then you need to re-install the
application which gave you the
developer licence (e,g, Visual Dtudio 6).

Or, entirely avoid having to distribute, install, and register an Active X
by just using the Common Dialog Open/Save File APIs as described in
http://www.mvps.org/access/api/api0001.htm. It even includes sample code for
calling it; worked first time for me; and, it simplifies distribution and
maintenance significantly.

Larry Linson
Microsoft Access MVP