Hi,

The only method to create a FlowChartX instance is by means of the IClassFactory2 interface, which unfortunately is not supported by MMC.

A workaround is to create an ActiveX control that wraps FlowChartX. E.g. use the ATL Composite Control project and add FlowChartX as the only child of the composite control dialog resource. ATL will take care of the licensing stuff, and the wrapper control itself won't need a runtime license, so you will be able to use it in MMC.

I hope that helps,
Stoyan

Follow these steps to load FlowchartX (or any other licensed control) in a web page:

1. download Lpk_tool.exe from http://download.microsoft.com
2. run the tool on a computer where you have installed the control for design-time use
3. select the control in the list displayed by LPK_tool and click Add
4. Click "Save & Exit" and choose a name for the license file
5. In the HTML page add an OBJECT tag to load the IE license manager. The license manager CLSID is "5220cb21-c88d-11cf-b347-00aa00a28331", and it must appear before any other controls in the page
6. Add a <PARAM NAME="LPKPath" VALUE="relative URL to .LPK file"> to the license manager' OBJECT tag
7. Add the OBJECT tag for FlowChartX

You can see how the OBJECT tags are used in the FlowchartX online demo.

If nor the wrapper control neither the web page approach works for you, we can build a custom version of FlowChartX that will check the runtime license key by other means, e.g. a Windows named mutex object.

Stoyan