INFO: OLE Controls Must Be Registered

SUMMARY

OLE Controls (.OCX files) are OLE servers, so they must be listed in the registry. Visual Basic applications require an installation process to ensure that the necessary items are properly registered. During the setup process, if an OLE Control is needed and not registered, Visual Basic uses the auto-registration facility to automatically register an OLE Control by searching along the normal DLL search path for a file with the OLE Control name. This is done both in the design environment and for built executables. If the OLE Control is properly registered by other means, it need not be on the DLL search path.

If Visual Basic does not reside on a computer, any Visual Basic application targeted to be run on that computer must be installed through the setup process. It cannot be simply copied.