继承现有的ActiveX控件

Question

I am currently working with a 3rd party ActiveX Control (an editor for topographical data distributed by Cadcorp SIS). I have to do some fairly complex stuff with it in a VB.NET (framework 4) program and am finding that the API that comes with the control is quite limited.

As of now I have made a custom control which houses the control and acts as a wrapper for it to allow me to extend the API, which works fine, but What I would really like to do it give the control more events so that I can monitor what is going on with the data more closely.

I'm not sure how to go about doing this though...

I tried inheriting from the control and I can extend it just fine, but I can't figure out how to reuse it after that. Is there some way I can inherit the control and get it to appear in the toolbox so I can just drop it onto a form? Or do I have to load it programatically? If so, how can I do it?

Any pointers, examples, tutorials or alternative ideas as to how to do this kind of thing would be welcome.

Answer 1

If you are not seeing your control class in toolbox it doesn't mean that you can't use it just modify code from your form's designer to use your inherited class

Or

You can drag-and-drop your assembly (dll) from Windows Explorer to the toolbox in VS.NET. Or you can right click on the toolbox in VS.NET and choose Add/Remove items. Is this what you are looking for?

Also

<ToolBoxItem(True), ToolboxBitmap("MyNamespace.MyClass.bmp")> _
    Public Class MyClass