PowerPoint activeX control displays BIG RED X

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I have made a user control using c#.Net & vb.Net and made the control as COM interop along with COM visible true. It built & registered by "regasm" successfully. My control is visible in power point 2010 under "More Controls" option and can able to add it in slide. The problem is after embedding the control in slide (in design time) a big red color "X" sign displays inside the control (and rest background is white) instead of the actual visual appearance of User Control. but when i start slide show, the User Control displays its own interface (GUI) and when i stop slide show again the interface disappear & display red "X" sign. This User Control works fine with previous versions of MS Power Point (2007/2003/XP). This BIG RED "X" problem is happening with MS Power Point 2010. How do I correct this problem??

Office Version: Office 2010
Program:PowerPoint
Operating System:Windows XP
Visual Studio : 2008
Working Framework : 3.5

Using Language : C#

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Nibir Mistry

Posted 17-Dec-10 2:31am

nibir.mistry

Updated 17-Dec-10 2:54am

Marc A. Brown

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Toli Cuturicu 20-Dec-10 16:32pm

Never post fake answers. (I deleted yours this time)

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Dave Kreskowiak · Answer 1 · 2010-12-18T15:38:00

Solution 1

You're getting the big red X because there's something wrong in the drawing code of your control. There isn't enough information to tell you what's wrong though.

Posted 18-Dec-10 15:38pm

Dave Kreskowiak

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vipin_jain_swm 27-Jan-11 1:01am

I am also getting same problem. What can be wrong with the drawning code? If anything is wrong with the drawning code then should not it get show same error with Power Point 2007 or lower version?

Any suggestions will be helpful to diagnose the problem further.

-Vipin

nibir.mistry · Answer 2 · 2011-02-17T20:15:00

Hello,
I might be wrong about the way I'm following for implementing & fixing my "RED X" issue, I got some samples "All-In-One Code Framework (COM)" for "CSActiveX" from ( http://1code.codeplex.com ). But the same problem persists with their sample code. I think there might another way for fixing this "RED X" issue.
Issue Thread : http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/Offtopic/thread/6f976d01-b1d8-4eff-98d5-c1ac61e01af7
Thanks
Nibir Mistry