ActiveX controls such as mscomct2.ocx have both a design-time license (for developers) and a run-time license (for end-users). The controls are redistributable for run-time purposes, so that your customers can use apps you build that use these controls. This is what I thought you were asking about.

To work with the control at design-time it needs to be registered on your machine with the design-time license. This happens automatically when you install the product with which the control was released (VS 6.0 in this case). I don't know if it's possible to register this control for design-time use on a machine on which VS 6.0 is not installed, but it's probably not legal even if you could.

There are a lot of references about ActiveX licensing available on MSDN. A couple you might want to look at for general information would be "Licensing ActiveX Controls" at http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/components/activex/licensing.asp and MSDN article Q172859 - ODE97: "You Don't Have a License" Error Using ActiveX Control.

HTH,
Rick





>Hmm, ran into some more difficulties. The control registered fine but when I try and insert it onto a form in Access 97, I get the message:
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>"You don't have the license required to use this ActiveX control.
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>You tried to open a form containing an OLE object or an ActiveX control or you tried to create an ActiveX control.
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>To obtain the appropriate license, contact the company that provides the licensed OLE object or ActiveX control."
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>Any ideas? I also thought that mscomctl.ocx was redistributable and didn't require any other software to be installed.