Web Browser Control in Access 2007?

[ChipR]

Anyone know how make the web browser control available in Access 2007?

I've looked for information on this for hours and found the .dll names here. I enabled references for Microsoft Internet Controls, Microsoft HTML Object Library, and Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects 2.8 Library, but the control is not listed. There are no other references related to the web browser control.

I did exit and restart Access after changing the references.

Can anyone tell me what .dll has the apropriate reference?

[Delerna]

does this help ?

http://bytes.com/topic/access/answer...file-text-file

[dpminusa]

Not sure if this is still open or not.

If you just want to reference a link, the brute force way is to use the browser location on your system with a shell command:

Call Shell("C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE mysite.com", vbNormalFocus)

To work with the Web Browser Control:

shdocvw.dll should work if you want to use the control rather than just make a link.

[AdamOnAccess]

Don't know if this will help, but I'm using 2007 and I found the control after referencing the library. I did ask a question about the control recently and posted the web control on the forum, but I had to post it in Access 2003 format. Perhaps you can just copy and paste my control off the form I uploaded. Here is the link:

http://bytes.com/topic/access/answer...after-resizing

-Adam

[ChipR]

Thanks for the responses.

Referencing shdocvw.dll allows me to Dim an InternetExplorer, but it does not make the conrol available in the list of ActiveX controls. As far as I can tell, there is only one version of shdocvw.dll, so not sure what else to do. Luckily, this was just for experimenting, and the FollowHyperlink command works fine for now.

[Megalog]

Add a reference to Microsoft Internet Controls (system32\ieframe.dll)

Under ActiveX Controls, you should see a Microsoft Web Browser

The events listed are pretty limited, although all I ever used it for was to open a select few web pages based on a combo box selection.

[topher23]

Well, if I were to apply general troubleshooting skills, the first thing I'd mention is that the control is called "Microsoft Web Browser."

[ChipR]

Interesting. I added a reference to ieframe.dll, and there is still no Web Browser control listed (after restarting Access).

[topher23]

Apparently you're not the only one with this problem. I Googled "Access 2007 Web Browser control" and found several instances of people not being able to find this control after referencing the Internet Controls. Maybe you should call Microsoft *smirk*

[Megalog]

Hrm.. I just took a new database, created a new form and was able to find the Microsoft Web Browser in the ActiveX controls list.

After adding the control, a reference to Microsoft Internet Controls was automatically created.

I'm running winXP SP3 using IE7 (7.0.5730.13) and A2007 SP2.

[ChipR]

Quite strange. I am also on XP SP3, IE7 (same version) and Acess 2007 SP2. I created a new database, one form and...no Web Browser control :(

I was hopeful for a moment when I ran Microsoft Office Diagnostics from Access. It told me it repaired an issue with the Setup (it didn't give more specific results), but there were no apparent effects.

[MMcCarthy]

Hi Chip

My setup is the same as yours and megalogs and I can find it on my activeX controls list.

I suggest inserting your 2007 Office installation disk and use the customise option to see if you are missing any installation files or if some of those options are not set to "Run from my computer". This is the only thing I can see that would cause this problem.

Mary

[ChipR]

It does seem like it must be an installation issue. Since I don't have permissions (I'm just a lowly peon coder), I'm going to leave it alone for now. Thank you all for your help.