Creating Active X

Question

Hi
Anybody created your own ActiveX control to work with SBO?
Is it possible to build an ActiveX control in C#.net / VB.net for SBO 2007?
I do not need the SDK sample of Active X Tree view. Since this example is for loading the active X in SBO form.
Can anybody help me to download a sample active x (From scratch) working in SBO?.
Thank you
Anoop

Answer 1

For creating activeX COM controls please go here.
http://www.csharphelp.com/archives/archive281.html
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/CreateActiveXDotNet.aspx
Follow the steps listed there.
Very important part while you use this in SDK is
1. Com Registration part
2. COM Unregistration part
3. Visibility of COM
4. Registration command using Regasm
These are well explained there.
In addition to these you must enable a remote channel to communicate with server.
For this, use this code in the constructor
BinaryServerFormatterSinkProvider provider = new BinaryServerFormatterSinkProvider();
            provider.TypeFilterLevel = System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.TypeFilterLevel.Full;
            // Creating the IDictionary to set the port on the channel instance.
            IDictionary props = new Hashtable();
            props["port"] = 0;
            props["name"] = DateTime.Now.Ticks.ToString(); //DateTime.UtcNow.ToString();
            // Pass the properties for the port setting and the server provider in the server chain argument.
            //(Client remains null here.)
            TcpChannel chan = new TcpChannel(props, null, provider);
            ChannelServices.RegisterChannel(chan, false);
Now you can use the activex..  If any question, contact me in the mail address provided here.
Anoop