Visual Basic Concepts

Adding an ActiveX Designer to the Project Menu

After you install a new ActiveX designer, using the Setup program supplied by the vendor, you must make the designer available to your projects by adding it to the project menu.

Installing the ActiveX designer will register it in the Windows Registry, under the appropriate component category. It will then be available from the Designers tab of the Components dialog box.

To add an ActiveX designer to the Project menu

1. On the Project menu, click Components to open the Components dialog box.

2. Click the Designers tab and select the designer you want to use, as shown in the following figure. Click OK.

   

Note   The Microsoft Forms designer is included in all versions of Visual Basic, to allow forms created in Microsoft Office applications to be ported easily. Like all designers, the Microsoft Forms designer has its own run-time .dll. Using this designer in a Visual Basic project will therefore increase the memory requirements of the resulting executable.

For More Information   To add a designer to your project, see "Inserting a New Instance of an ActiveX Designer."