Question Trouble Placing an ActiveX control on a form

[Fozzie]

Hello,

My ever first post on this forum! I have been trying for ages to put an ActiveX control on a windows form for a CCTV camera I am using.

I have registered the control with windows, added it as a reference to my VS2008 project and now it appears in the toolbox.

When I put the ActiveX control on the form I always get an error saying

"Failed to create back buffer surface"

The control is added to the form however I can not get it to work and I suspect it has something to do with this error.

I have an example project from the developers of the camera that does not have this problem, i.e. I can add the ActiveX control with no problems, however the program is in C++ and I am using VB.Net.

Is there anything else I need to do to stop this error from occurring?

I am using a CCTV camera from Zavio (F521E). The ActiveX control is called AxVideoView.ocx.

Maybe I could email someone the control and they could try?

Thanks in advance.

Anthony

 

[Fozzie]

This problem is sorted. The manufacturer got back to me and said it was a problem on their end with compadibility with VS2008. It should work fine with the error message. I half have it going now.