How to list all available ActiveX Controls?

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Hello

I have a Form with a PropertyGrid and a UserControl on it.

I would like to add ActiveX-Controls by choosing them in the PropertyGrid (so I would like to list the acitveX controls in list in an UITypeEditor) .

Is this possible?

How can I access the list of available activeX Controls, so that I can get their clsid.

Is it possible to open the Toolbox with the "COM Components" that is used in winforms-designer? This one?
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/ImportActiveX/image001.png[^]

Thanks for you help

Posted 4-Mar-12 21:00pm

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Dave Kreskowiak · Answer 1 · 2012-03-05T05:20:00

Is it possible to open the Toolbox with the "COM Components" that is used in winforms-designer? This one?

Only if you install Visual Studio with your application. Probably not a good idea.

It can be done. There's a couple of different methods of doing it, each wil give you different results though.

One method is to parse through the entire HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT key in the registry, looking for values of the form "sometext.someothertext". Then you can get the .DLL/.OCX path value from that key.

THe other is to convert this code[^] to C#.