Can I host an MMC snapin in an application

Question

Is there a way to host an MMC snapin in an application? Specifically, we have an "Enterprise Management Application" that we use to manage our applications / services, and we want to add certain functionality to this utility that is already implemented as MMC snapins. It would be great if we could just host these configured snapins in our existing application instead of having to reinvent the wheel.

I see plenty of info out there on writing MMC snapins, but absolutely nothing on hosting them. Does anyone know if this is possible?

Answer 1

This is not something I have tried myself, but it should certainly be possible. If you are trying to host your own snap-in it should be much easier. You didn't mention the MMC version of you snap-in, but MMC and snap-ins communicate using a well-defined API. If you want to host your own snap-ins you have some expectations about how this snap-in will be called. You will have to make those calls from your hosting environment, and perhaps you would even have to do some reverse engineering to fully understand how MMC uses your snap-in.