1. The ActiveX controls:
a) From the VS-Installer's project window, goto 'File system' and dbl click on it to bring up the file system window. Be sure the .ocx file is incuded in your file system under application folder. If it's not there..put it there.
b) Click on it (the .ocx) file and look at the propery sheet and you'll see a propery for the .ocx file called 'componet-id'. You will want to paste that into your clipboard.
c) Go back to the property sheet and dbl click on 'associatons' to bring up the Associatons window. You will see an item in the tree called 'COM objects'. Right Click on it and a little menu pops up..click on 'add comm object'
d) Now..for the property's of the com object you just added...you'll want to paste that componet ID you snaged in step B and paste it in the property sheet where it says CLSID. (include the {})
e) On the propery sheet, right below that it says 'Component', click on the little '...' box there and go select your .ocx file from the list. (When the list window pops up you will have to select the 'The following component' option to enable the list so you can pick the one you want.


2) I haven't played around with the VS Installer more than a couple of hours, so I don't know how to do this...maybe tommorow...

>I'm having a bear of a time getting the VS Installer to work. First I have a couple of ActiveX controls I need to install and I don't understand the whole "merge file" thing. If someone can explain how to install an ActiveX control (onr from the windows common controls collectione) that would be great.
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>Also I can't get the stupid thing to make a shortcut that works. It puts the right info in the target line but doesn't put anything in the "start in" line of the shortcut.
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>Thanks in advance.