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Hi all./Devs.

There still appears to be a problem with bringing the VLC Activex plugin into Visual Studio as per ticket 14239 & 14271 (Tagged Closed - defect fixed)
https://trac.videolan..org/vlc/ticket/14239
https://trac.videolan..org/vlc/ticket/14271

As the most recent nightly build appears to still suffer from the problem ("Failed to create component axhost" error), I spent some hours testing the nightly 'vlc-2.2.2-win32.exe' builds backwards from the latest/most current build and discovered that "20151021-0203" works OK, but that subsequent builds all return the above error.
I hope that this helps identify what alterations were made at that point (20151022-0921) causing the Activex plugin to no longer import to a windows VB.NET form. (After having been fixed in the earlier nightly builds as per ticket responses.)

I hope that this can be rectified prior to 2.2.2 general release. (and on the 64bit .exe) While I am not in a position to help with VLC dev directly, if I can help with any testing or more detail of symptoms, I would be more than happy to help all I can.

Thank you, this helped me get it working. I can confirm that "20151021-0203" nightly build works.

The strange thing is, I used another build prior to this and it was working fine (and for some reason I remember it to be the 2.2.1 release). Then it stopped working after I installed other versions of VLC and I could never get it working again until I followed your suggestion to install the nightly build above.

I'm getting frequent crashes with Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition. Not sure if this is related to the VLC component though.

Thanks

You are welcome
Let's hope that the Devs pick up on this and remedy the issue prior to 2.2.2 release. JBK - any ideas? (27/07/2015 DA Patch VB Project possibly a starting point?)

I think I have found the cause of the problems.
I have created a ticket:
https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/15982

The nightlies should now work again, bug is fixed.