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Response.Redirect in a COM+ Object Called from Classic ASP Page

Basically we moved from IIS 5 to IIS 7 and I am trying to update some of our old COM objects to .NET by rewriting them in C#. What I am have so far is a Classic ASP page calling the COM+ object and then I am trying to do a simple redirect within the COM+ object (this is just for testing purposes, it's not what the object will do eventual...

Strategies for Accessing a Application with a COM API From PHP

Background: Experienced PHP developer with a mostly *nix background. I'm writing a PHP application that needs to interact with a proprietary 3rd party system. The 3rd party system is Windows only. The PHP application will be living on a separate Linux based system The 3rd party application has been described as having a "COM API" th...

PHP - ADO recordsets

I am referencing a COM component from PHP. This COM component returns records using ADO. I am assuming I will need to reference ADO in PHP for this to function. How do I do this? Secondly (related to the first question) I have run accross ADODB abstraction libraries, however these seem to mostly deal with queries and handle the ADO i...

Deploying .NET COM dll, getting error (0x80070002)

I have a .NET COM assembly I am attempting to deploy to a web server (IIS 6 Win 2003). We have successfully deployed this assembly to our test environment, but the production environment is not working. The assembly is being called from a classic ASP page. Every time that page tries to initialize the assembly with “Set LTMRender = Creat...

COM access to classic ASP intrinsic objects

I'm converting a VB6 COM object that works with classic ASP to a c# .Net COM Object Interop_COMSVCS.ObjectContext objContext; Interop_COMSVCS.AppServer objAppServer; objAppServer = null; // need to initialize before using objAppServer = new Interop_COMSVCS.AppServer(); objContext = objAppServer.G...

Who is responsible for calling CoInitialize and CoUninitialize if surrogate process or COM+

Who is responsible for calling CoInitialize and CoUninitialize if 1- I host a COM dll within a surrogate process (either by using dcomcnfg utility or COM+ wizard)? 2- I build a ISAPI DLL that contains COM objects? ...

Using COM to open Word

Hello! I am actually trying some codes i found from http://php.net/manual/en/class.com.php <?php // starting word $word = new COM("word.application") or die("Unable to instantiate Word"); echo "Loaded Word, version {$word->Version}\n"; //bring it to front $word->Visible = 1; //open an empty document $word...

Connect to an elevated COM server from a non-elevated process

We have a program which launches a child process that hosts a local COM server, which for various reasons must be launched elevated. Everything works fine so long as both the parent and the child process are elevated. However, we also want to run when the parent process is non-elevated. Launching the child process results in a UAC dialo...

Using Word COM objects in .NET, WinWord process won't quit after calling Word.Documents.Add

I'm running into the classic scenario where, when creating Word COM objects in .NET (via the Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word assembly), the WinWord process won't exit even though I'm properly closing and releasing the objects. I've narrowed it down to the use of the Word.Documents.Add() method. I can work with Word in other ways without ...

How to invoke client ActiveX via javascript

Hi I want to let server to invoke client ActiveX via javascript. The script work well as it run on my local system. Then I place it into Apache Server and it's malfunction. Script: <object id="lv_obj" classid = "CLSID:30A92485-94D2-4CBA-AC32-EF276B7F777B" CODEBASE="" ></OBJECT> try { document.all.lv_obj.Init("PCS_Tes"); } catch (...

Run word on server for COM to work??

I got this from php.net website. This is related to the problem I am having with tho code below. Can anyone explain me what the following does. I am using Vista. What does running Word on server implies? In order to get the Word example running, do the following on the server side. Worked for me... 1. Click START-->RUN and ente...

Open an excel file using COM and save it as .xml file

Hi. Im trying the following code: <?php $workbook = "D:\b2\\test.XLS"; $sheet = "Sheet1"; #Instantiate the spreadsheet component. $ex = new COM("Excel.sheet") or Die ("Did not connect"); #Get the application name and version print "Application name:{$ex->Application->value}<BR>" ; print "L...

Does Marshal.ReleaseComObject call the garbage collector ?

Hi, I was asked this question today by a colleague, and couldn't find any clue on the Internet... Can someone tell me if calling Marshall.ReleaseComObject()directly calls the garbage collector ? As I understand it, it only removes COM references, and then the G.C. cleans memory on its next pass, but I can be mistaken... Thanks in advan...

Ole atomation in c#

I write vbs that create ole atomation object On Error Resume Next dim objShell dim objFolder if not objFolder is nothing then objFolder.CopyHere "ftp://anonymous:[email protected]/bussys" WScript.Sleep 100 end if set objShell = nothing set objFolder = nothing How to do that on C# (or do that without ole automation just use ...

.NET Access automation with Access 2007 Runtime

I'm having trouble deploying .NET application which uses Microsoft Access automation. I've installed the Access 2007 Runtime and Primary Interop Assemblies (PIAs) on the target machine: Access 2007 Runtime Office 2007 PIAs However, when I try to create the ApplicationClass: Application access = new ApplicationClass(); I get the fo...

Exposing.NET assembly as COM 101

I have trouble to expose a .NET assembly in COM. It seems that I must be missing some basic step because I think I followed all tutorials and documentation I found as well as common sense, but still when I do (in a test VBScript): Set o = CreateObject("MyLib.MyClass") It keeps saying that the object cannot be created. Here are the st...

Outlook 2003 add-in - Getting COM exception on application shutdown after creating WPF window

Hi! I'm developing an outlook 2003 add-in. Until now I used only winforms to display one form, but today I've added a WPF window for more complex stuff. DUe to the WPF window, a COM exception is being thrown when outlook shuts down. Does anybody know why? I need to start a separate thread for the WPF window in single apartment state. ...

Import TLB problem in C++

I've created a managed COM object with related TLB file in VS2005. If I import the dll in a C++ source file, I can use the interface. However, I want to import the TLB in the header file, because I want to make a global object of an interface object. Now I have the following code (at the very top of the file) in the cpp file: #include ...

Is it possible to access a Silverlight control via the COM automation model?

What I'm trying to attempt is to access methods on a Silverlight control via the COM automation model. Theoretically it should be possible, as exposing the Silverlight control's methods as scriptable members exposes them through an IDispatch interface. I have been able to access the IDispatch interface through the automation model corr...

Unexpected Event Behavior When Using VB6 with COM Interop (C#)

We are using a COM Interop (C#) to allow for a VB6 application to send data to a server. Once the server receives the data, the managed code will raise a DataSent event. This event is only fired after a correlation ID is returned to the original caller. About 1% of the time, we've encountered VB6 executing the raised event before fin...