Does an OCX have to be registered to work?

[MPardo]

My question is pretty simple,

Does an OCX have to be registered to be used by my application or can I just place the OCX in the same directory as the .exe file? I know I can do it for DLLs but wasn't sure about OCXs. I have attempted to run a program in this manner and everything seems to work. However, I have always assumed that OCXs needed to be registered. Thanks in advance!

Matt

[BHostmeyer]

If you program services point to it in a dir such as windows then yes it must be in the windows dir... but if you put all the ocx in the folder with the project then compilie it then relate the program to them there it will run from there...

If you want some more detailed information on how to do this drop me an email..

Hope this helps

Brooke.

Yes you have to register an .ocx for it to work.