Cannot embed Microsoft Visio Drawing Control on Access form

Question

Windows 7 64bit
Office Professional Plus 2016 32bit
Visio Professional 2016 32bit

In a new Access database, on a new form I can insert (via the insert Active X dialog) the Visio viewer control but not "Microsoft Visio 16.0 Drawing Control". 
Access errors with: "the OLE server isn't registered. To register the OLE server, reinstall it"
Attempting to add the drawing control to a form created in Word causes Word to crash.
I can however embed a Visio drawing in an unbound OLE container, so OLE doesn't seem to be entirely broken!

Have tried:

Repairing both Visio & Office installs.

Checked Visio & Office are fully updated (via Windows Update)

Adding references in VBA module to:
Microsoft Visio 16.0 Drawing Control Type Library
Microsoft Visio 16.0 Save as Web Type Library
Microsoft Visio 16.0 Type Library
Microsoft Visio Viewer 16.0 Type Library

The "Microsoft Visio 16.0 Drawing COntrol Type Library" refers to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office16\VISOCX.DLL", so I tried re-registering it.
To attempt this I copied VISOCX.DLL to SysWOW64 and ran "regSvr32 visocx.dll".
This errors with "The module "visocx.dll" was loaded but the entry-point DLLRegisterServer was not found. Make sure that "visocx.dll" is a valid DLL or OCX file and then try again".

I am stumped! I would really like to use the Visio drawing control on an Access form in my application, so any help much appreciated.

Answer 1

Not all ActiveX controls will work in Access just because you can see them in the list. It could very well be that the drawing library only works in Visio.

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Bill Mosca
www.thatlldoit.com
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MS_Access_Professionals

Answer 2

Hi,

We are unable to insert the Microsoft Visio 16.0 Drawing Control into Access form. My Access crashes after inserting, I suggest you submit a feedback on the User Voice: https://access.uservoice.com/

Sorry for any inconvenience and have a nice day! 

Regards,

Celeste

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