Error trying to use Visio Drawing Control

[matt23lucier]

I am trying to use the Visio Drawing Control in a vb.net windows application but keep getting an error everytime I try to drag the control onto my form. I am using VS2003 and I have Visio 2003 installed on my machine. I have added the control 'Microsoft Visio 11.0 Drawing Control' to my toolbox. Whenever I try to drag this control onto my form I get the following two errors:
'An unspecified error occured' and then
'Unspecified error'

I have tried to uninstall/reinstall Visio 2003, the Office 2003 PIA's and nothing seems to work.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Matt

 

[Qik3Coder]

Your project has a reference to the controls? And the Dll's are in bin directory, so it can find them?

-Sometimes the answer to your question is the hack that works

 

[matt23lucier]

Yes the proper refernces are created and the Dll's can be found.
Thanks
Matt

 

[Qik3Coder]

And all you get is a random Unspecified error?

-Sometimes the answer to your question is the hack that works

 

[matt23lucier]

I think I may have figured out why this is happening. When I installed Visio 2003 (months ago) I never bothered to register it. For a while I was able to use this drawing control on other applications with no issues. After a certain amount of time or amount of times used visio will disable some of its functionality until it is registered. Because I was not actually using visio I did not notice this. The drawing control must have been encompassed within the functionality that was retricted. Once I registered visio I was able to use this control once again. Thank you to all the people who tried to help.
Thanks
Matt