Hi Every one,

I created an Activex using a 3rd party licensed Activex; there is a lot of customization involved in the code; The customized ActiveX is used with MAGIC(RAD Tool) as an OLE object. Initially I was working with the trial version of the 3rd party component and then we bought the 3rd party component. Now I have the licensing issue with in MAGIC; for some reason it is looking for the design license rather than the runtime. At the same time, the customized ActiveX works fine as a VB exe; there is no license problem during runtime.

Unfortunately there is no license free option for the 3rd party product. In order to make the ActiveX work without licensing issue; I wish I could make my customized ActiveX as a DLL (!). If I can covert that as a DLL, I am hoping to use them with VC++ and then create a stub DLL which can be used in MAGIC.

Now what I need to know are

1. Is there a method to create a DLL using VB, that will be accessible by other tools such as VC++ ?
2. I have to tell you that, the activex has a lot of customized forms and dialogs and a licensed activex. I am hoping that with in the DLL the registration of the 3rd party control shall be dynamic and there should not be a runtime license error?

I would appreciate, if you have any kind of information that may help solve the problem.

Thank you.