[AccessD] Observations on AC 2007 (not good)...more..and more...

 > I like that Listview control with the sortable column headers....why didn't MSFT make that a 
native control in 2007 ?

Silly boy, they were much too busy with more important things like pretty tool bars.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com

On 12/2/2010 9:02 PM, Mark Simms wrote:
> Opened an AC2003 MDB that had a form using MSCOMCTL's "Listview" control.
> Environment: Windows 7 64 Bit with AC2007 / SP2.
>
> I try to debug the VBA code where the Listview control population was
> occuring.
> Access IGNORED my STOP statement; ignored all BREAKPOINTS.
> However, the code did compile cleanly (go figure).
> This was driving me crazy (we've all been there with Access, right ?)
>
> So I fire-up REGEDIT and find the reference to the MSCOMCTL.OCX.
> There are TWO of them...one in \Windows\System32....the other in
> \Windows\SysWow64.
>
> So I pull up the References dialog box within the VBA environment.....and
> note there are no references to MSCOMCTL showing !
> I browse to SysWow64, find the MSCOMCTL.OCX which was dated 2008, add it,
> and move it up in priority.
> I close AC2007, re-open....and ALL IS WELL. I can now debug again !
> But more importantly.....Hey....
> I like that Listview control with the sortable column headers....why didn't
> MSFT make that a native control in 2007 ?
>
>