office controls with plain vb application

[jackha18]

is it possible to distribute ms forms controls with plain vb exe file?
i know they can be used from visual studio but how can i "embed" this fm20.dll(which contains those controls) so the program will run on the computer that doesn't have office installed?
simple copying and registering with regsvr32 doesn't work.
i need it because ms forms texbox is better than plain vb textbox - it uses unicode.

 

[HobbitK]

After you add the Forms object library to the component list in a VB project, the package and deployment wizard will include that .DLL in the package.

HTH
Michael

 

[jackha18]

...and here is the catch. the deployment wizard says it cannot find dependency information for fm20.dll (the project compiles and run perfect). i suspect microsoft hides this information intentionaly to make it impossible to distibute this component without office. i hope there's a way to overcome this limitation