I had the same problem, It seems to be somthing to do with the ole containers align property. If it is set to anything but None it displays toolbars if the olecontainer is placed on the form. I got round this by placeing a Panel on the form and placing the olecontainer into the panel. Again if the panel's align property is set to anything but none you will get the toolbars, but if you set it to none and use the anchor propertys of the panel to handle resizing it should be ok.