Referencing an activeX control in Monodevelop

[DelphiGuy]

win 7, monodevelop 3.0.6

a vendor has provided me with a .dll file that he says is an activeX control. how, please, do i reference it from a cobra/monodevelop project?

i've tried:

"edit references" >> ".net assembly" tab >> which unsurprisingly gives an error msg saying that the .dll file isn't a .net assembly.

thanks.

[nerdzero]

You could try wrapping it in a class using Visual Studio and then reference the resulting .NET assembly from MonoDevelop.

There might be a more straight forward way but I don't know it.

[ObtuseAngle]

Try converting it with tlbimp (Type Library Importer).

See:
http://www.csharp-station.com/articles/ ... xdlls.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms973800.aspx

You might also want to investigate aximp
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8ccdh774.aspx
http://board.issociate.de/thread/484398 ... ctors.html

Strong my google-fu is this morning.

[DelphiGuy]

thank you! this is very interesting reading and good to know about. the vendor told me he's going to supply me with a .net assembly so the conversion mission may be moot for the moment.