Recent windows updates seem to have broken the MS Web Browser Active X control. I found Stephen Labens HTML Editor (http://www.lebans.com/htmleditor.htm) as a demonstration and downloaded it. As in my own application the message is "no object in this control".
I'm using Access 2003 on a Win XP machine. My version of shDocVw.dll (Internet Controls) is 6.0.2900.5803. I rolled back to 6.0.2900.5770 but it was still broken. The client I developed the software for in April 2009 is still running ok and has version 6.0.3790.4098 of the file on a server.
Has anyone else had this issue or know of any potential fixes?
When I try to add the control to a new form I get the message: Microsoft Office Access doesn't support this ActiveX Control.
I don't have VB6 installed. I'm using Access 2003. I also have the Office 2007 suite installed and SQL Server 2008.
UPDATE 28th June: Today I turned on my notebook which had been off for a month or so. I installed all the office updates and then went through the other updates one by one.
961501 WinXP
968537 WinXP
969897 IE6 (this one updated shdocvw.dll to 6.0.2900.5803
969898 Killbits
970238 WinXP
After all these updates the Web Browser activeX works!! I have also checked on my home PC where all updates had installed automatically and the activeX works fine. So my main work PC must just have had something go wrong along the way. The only really different piece of software on my work PC is the Symantec Client VPN software (9.0.0.1825) which interferes with my networking in other ways.
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It could also be Description of the cumulative update rollup for the Visual Basic 6.0 Service Pack 6 Runtime Extended Files http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=957924 although doesn't mention shDocVw.dll.
I gotta say I'm quite confused by what files are updated by which security update, etc, etc, etc. Mind numbing. And I'm reasonably good at reading MS stuff.