In "toolbox" panel, there is a "DateTimePicker" tool. I'm wondering if that uses ActiveX control? I saw an ActiveX ComboDate Control from visual basic.net somewhere and it look different to "datetimepicker" tool. It has 2 command button controls for changing the month and two command button controls for changing the year. Here's the image I found on internet

http://www.csupomona.edu/~scurl/338/docs/Project3.pdf