HOWTO: Renaming an ActiveX Control After its Project Is Created

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The registered name may be found from a string resource in the .rc file of the control's project. The string resource always starts with IDS_XXX where XXX is the name of the control's project. If the project name is "BABY," then the following can be found in the string's table of the control's project:

   IDS_BABY               "BABY Control"
				

Set a new control name to the IDS_XXX string resource and rebuild the control's project. The control is shown in its new name in the Insert ActiveX Control dialog box.

The control's module name is defined at the first helpstring in the .odl file of the control's project file. The following is found from the .odl file of the BABY's project:

   helpstring("BABY ActiveX Control module")
				

Set a new module name to the helpstring above and rebuild the control's project. The control's new module name is shown in Visual Basic's Components dialog box.

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