Question : Replacing OCX Controls used in Microsoft Access 2007

Hi all,

I need help with a general question.  I'm upgrading a Access 2003 application to Access 2007.  The 2003 application used CommonDialogue, ImageList, ListView & MSHFlexGrid OCX controls and although I can use these in Access 2007, I suspect supporting applications that include COM based stuff will get more difficult in the future.  

Does anybody know if Microsoft have released .NET based equivalents which can be used in the Office environment, or if you've any pointers about building your own in Visual Studio based around say the DataGridView.

Answer : Replacing OCX Controls used in Microsoft Access 2007

No, there are not .NET based equivalents of those items. Unless you were working with the controls that came with the Office Developer Edition, then the controls you list were never certified for use in Access. Access 2010 makes no use of them either, and AFAIK has no ability to work with .NET editions of any of those controls.

The CommonDialog is often replaced with API calls: http://www.mvps.org/access/api/api0001.htm

IMO, if you need the functionality of 3rd party controls, you should probably move to the .NET environment.