OLE Container

[Martin]

The VS2005 help documentation says:

<QUOTE>
OLE Container Control There is no equivalent in Visual Basic 2005.
Applications that depend on this control should be left in Visual Basic 6.0.
</QUOTE>

I have an application that largely depends on the OLE Container control, and
I do not want to leave it in VB6, especially since Microsoft stopped all
support for VB6.

So, I need to find something else. Currently I use the OLE Container for the
following things:
1) Webcam capture (see: http://www.espital.net/presentation9.htm)
2) Storing and retrieving all kinds of documents, such as document scans,
usually in Jpeg format. MS-Word documents, but also graphics provided by
medical equipment such as an ultrasound machine (see:
http://www.espital.net/presentation14.htm)

For the documents mentioned under 2) the user can see a preview in the VB6
application and also choose to open it in the provider application (MS-Word,
Paint, etc.)

Adding a document was always fairly simple: The user chooses to add a
document, and my app shows the standard OLE-Dialog where the user selects a
source.

The webcam capturing is a lot simpler, since that one doesn't need to be
opened in an external app.

The document itself is stored in a blob-field in MS-SQL-server as an
OLE-object.

Does anyone have any experience with doing something similar in VB.Net?

Tia,
Martin

[Ken Tucker [MVP]]

Hi,

You can display most documents in a web browser control.

Web cam capture.
http://www.vb-tips.com/default.aspx?...6-e5cf2ebb86b6

Ken
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The VS2005 help documentation says:

<QUOTE>
OLE Container Control There is no equivalent in Visual Basic 2005.
Applications that depend on this control should be left in Visual Basic
6.0.
</QUOTE>

I have an application that largely depends on the OLE Container control,
and I do not want to leave it in VB6, especially since Microsoft stopped
all support for VB6.

So, I need to find something else. Currently I use the OLE Container for
the following things:
1) Webcam capture (see: http://www.espital.net/presentation9.htm)
2) Storing and retrieving all kinds of documents, such as document scans,
usually in Jpeg format. MS-Word documents, but also graphics provided by
medical equipment such as an ultrasound machine (see:
http://www.espital.net/presentation14.htm)

For the documents mentioned under 2) the user can see a preview in the VB6
application and also choose to open it in the provider application
(MS-Word, Paint, etc.)

Adding a document was always fairly simple: The user chooses to add a
document, and my app shows the standard OLE-Dialog where the user selects
a source.

The webcam capturing is a lot simpler, since that one doesn't need to be
opened in an external app.

The document itself is stored in a blob-field in MS-SQL-server as an
OLE-object.

Does anyone have any experience with doing something similar in VB.Net?

Tia,
Martin