I'm looking for a way to call a COM port from a webpage. I was thinking abut running a Java WebStart (or Flash?) program that opens a local web server that allows to interact with the COM port using JSONP. Are there any show stopping security restrictions on the way that I don't know of? This should be possible: use native libraries ...
Env: Visual Studio 2008, Shared COM Excel Addin, RibbonX, I use Setup project created in VS 2008 .NET framework 35 SP1 product name changes say: prod name is myProd for version 1.0, prod name is myProdX for version 1.1 When I install version 1.1, I want to uninstall 1.0 first user setting is saved in a folder A in 1.0, it will be s...
sI have an XML file that looks like the following... <a> <b> <version>1.0</version> <c> <Module>foo.EXE</Module> </c> <c> <Module>bar.DLL</Module> </c> </b> </a> I have a COM DLL that uses MSXML2:IXMLDOMNode objects that call "selectNodes" something like... CComPtr<MSXML2::IXMLDOMNodeList> oR...
Hi, I have been struggling for days trying to get a simple ActiveX DLL to work with no success despite studying several articles on the subject which I have found online. I suspect I have several things coded incorrectly as I am just not familiar with this and most of the articles on the subject are out of date. I am using Visual Stud...
I'm attempting to use Microsoft's Text Services Framework in a C# app. So far, it's all gone swimmingly, but I've run into something that has me stumped. According to the MSDN docs, the ITfFnReconversion interface publishes this method: HRESULT GetReconversion( [in] ITfRange *pRange, [out] ITfCandidateList **ppCandList ); ...
I'm really struggling with WiX. I have .NET assemblies to install that require registration for COM Interop, AND they must be registered with another framework that requires calling a Register() method in a .NET assembly that's in the GAC. This registration method is a 'black box' with a hidden storage mechanism so I can't perform this o...
When creating a new STA thread to host an STA COM component, it is the responsibility of that thread to pump Windows messages related to COM. From what I've been able to gather, certain built in .NET threading primitives such as lock (Monitor.Enter) will do this for you while waiting for the object to be released by another thread. Anoth...
I am writing an application that needs to handle events fired by Office - things like 'before print' or 'new file'. From various articles and examples I understand I should use the IConnectionPoint interfaces. I got the ConnectionPointContainer for Word.Application using QueryInterface. Now I want to run FindConnectionPoint, but I have ...
When creating an out-of-process COM server in C# as documented in Microsoft's All-In-One code sample: CSExeCOMServer, it seems difficult to control the threading model of objects that are created in the server (by a client). The object being created needs to be in an STA due to the fact that it uses WPF objects, and it's factory is bein...
can safearrays be passed across process boundaries through com objects ? ...
COleVariant var(bstrString); var.ChangeType(VT_DATE); DATE date = var.date; not seems to be working. Any ideas will be appreciated. Thanks. ...
Hello I couldn't find a suitable renderer class in BaseClasses that has 2 input pins - one for video and one for audio. Can anybody recommend/provide some code? Regards Dominik ...
Hello, Is there a DOS/ Batch command which can be used for reading from the COM port? I tried to look for that but didn't find solution... Thank you in advance. ...
I have a simple COM add-in for office that I am developing (for access specifically). I have added a custom commandbarbutton item to the context menu that pops up when you right click on an object in the navigation pane. This works fine. The debug code I added runs (currently just a msgbox command). The one thing I cannot figure out ...
The question is simple enough. And judging by my last thirty minutes of searching around, I'm assuming that the answer is a resounding "no". So if it's a no, here's a follow up question: What's the best workaround? Is a COM wrapper around the web service a viable solution for a VBA version that old? Most of the functionality in the web...
Hi @ all, I am a little stuck with a strange Problem. I need to control some Hardware via a 3rd Party Active-X typelibrary. My program is written in C#. The Problem is one API / COM call needs a ref to a PVariant - So if I get it correctly a Pointer to a Variant. To make things worse, this is just the first address of an Varaint Array w...
I have created a Shell Extension using ATL COM Object . But during creation I haven't added MFC support. Can I change the setting now to add MFC support ...
Hi! I want to develop a Java application to communicate with the device based on Xilinx Spartan 3E Starter Kit. The board is connected to my PC with USB-to-COM cable (COM is on the board). What I need is to send some sequences of bytes to the device and than receive the response from it. It is the same way the serial terminals (hyperter...
Hi, I am using pythons win32com module to automate Adobe Photoshop. This works fine on some machines (have had issues with it not working on users with limited windows account permissions, but thats another issue). But on machines with both the 32bit and 64bit versions of Photoshop installed, I am getting errors when trying to access c...
When should I use Marshal.FinalReleaseComObject vs Marshal.ReleaseComObject? Is there any danger in using Marshal.FinalReleaseComObject? ...