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mstefan
Windows SDK coders do it without a .NET

I just noticed that the ActiveX Test Container (tstcon32.exe) was missing from Visual Studio 2008, and it's not in the latest Windows SDK. Is this an oversight, or does Microsoft just think that no one is building ActiveX controls anymore? Tongue Out

It's not a big deal, since I have a copy of it with Visual Studio 2005, but it is handy for testing them in the debugger, particularly when using scripts.

JChung2006

Is the source code for TSTCON still included in the Windows SDK that comes with Visual Studio 2008?

TSTCON Sample: ActiveX Control Test Container

mstefan
Windows SDK coders do it without a .NET

I did a search for both tstcon and tstcon32 in both the VS2008 and SDK folders and found nothing. It looks like they've completely removed it from the distribution.

joelSomething

In reply to mstefan

#Feb 4th, 2008 @ 12:12 PM

The ActiveX test component is available in VS 9.0 inside the AllVCLanguageSamples.zip inside the samples\1033 folder BUT you need to open the 'tstcon' solution including the projects and build it yourself. It also contains a readme which explains how to do that.

joechung

In reply to joelSomething

#Dec 4th, 2008 @ 6:46 AM

joelSomething's right. It's in that ZIP file in the C++\MFC\ole\TstCon folder. You can download the samples from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=01AE159F-08CD-495B-8BF4-A48CC395AD7B&displaylang=en.

jaykishankrk

In reply to joechung

#Dec 5th, 2008 @ 8:53 PM

Guys,

It kindof doesnt run on x64 platform... sure it compiles correct but refuses to run.. always lists side by side configuration as incorrect.. can anyone tell me where i can find x64 compatible build for TSTCON..

thanks in advance..

cheers,
Jay

RichardAlbury

In reply to jaykishankrk

#Jan 30th @ 10:09 AM

Check here for how to get tstcon32 running correctly on x64: it's a linker setting.

Hope this helps,

Richard

niknotyet

In reply to RichardAlbury

#Jul 27th @ 1:30 PM

I just tried this on Windows 7 and ran into additonal side-by-side run time errors. I upgraded to SP1 of VS2008 and installed the SP1 samples, but the TstCon sample would no longer even compile.

Might I suggest that the ATL tutorial and all other documentation that refers to the ActiveX Control Test Container be removed from MSDN and other documentation if Microsoft is not going to support it. Additionally, it is not useful to have sample code if those samples are not being tested to verify that they compile and run properly.