How to write an active x control for VB6 in .net 1

[donutman]

I need to print a SQL Server report (using the report server) from a vb6 application. Does anyone know of example code for creating a vb6 control in .net that could expose the properties and methods to accomplish the printing?
Karl

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[Sorwen]

If it is an ActiveX Control then you could look into using AxImp.

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[donutman]

I think AxImp is for doing just the opposite, i.e. taking an existing ActiveX Control and porting it to .NET. I need to write an ActiveX Control in .NET so that it can print a SQL Server report, but I need to use the ActiveX Control in an existing VB6 application. I'm not very fluent in .NET.
Karl

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[Sorwen]

Yes, I misunderstood what you were asking. First, you can't create an ActiveX Control in vb.net exactly. You can however create a vb.net control that exposes itself to com. This is for vb.net 2005, but the steps are pretty much the same if I remember correctly if you have 2008 instead.

http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=817248

The possible problem (and the difference) comes in with what is using it as it still requires the .Net Framework to run.

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[donutman]

Thanks for the link, but it confirms that I need to bid this project out to someone more fluent in .Net than I.
Karl

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