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I am trying to close the explorer tabs using a folder. To do that from C# I have this beautiful code: [ComImport, Guid("9BA05972-F6A8-11CF-A442-00A0C90A8F39"), InterfaceType(ComInterfaceType....
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Is it possible to integrate Windows Explorer component as a control, created on my window? For instance, as an ActiveX control. It should work in modern Windows 11 (24H2, 25H2). Back in Windows 9x ...
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I am using IFileOperation::DeleteItems to delete multiple files—including one that I don't have delete permission to. Using the standard IFileOperationProgressSink::PostDeleteItem to get a ...
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I've managed to stream raw PCM audio data from Microsoft's text to speech engine. The main implementation is here (included below): https://gitlab.com/bgc-nz/windows-com-programming-showcase/-/blob/...
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I have configured my computer for remote debugging: I have the Visual Studio solution and projects on my development computer and the testing is about to happen on a remote testmachine. On the ...
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I'd like to create an C# WPF library exposing some class to COM to use the class functionality from separate C++ project. What I'd like to achieve is to have a WPF class which implements simple form ...
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I have a COM C++ plugin which is developed using MAPI, which gets installed on Outlook and then it talks to my sever, I create a Mail profile providing server, user and pwd and it connect to server ...
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I am trying to read and set the calculation mode in Excel. I have type TXlCalculation = type LongWord; const xlCalculationAutomatic:TXlCalculation = TXlCalculation(-4105); xlCalculationManual:...
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I'm currently designing a library, I want this library to maintain a stable interface for old applications, However, it should be expandable. It acts as a hardware abstraction layer. The graphics ...
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Some components like DirectWrite or WIC don't do UI, and as the caller I can ensure that I never use them across apartments, thus no marshaling is required. Can I use them on a worker thread without ...
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I am trying to use the Kiwoom OpenAPI (for making automated stock trading program), which requires a 32-bit Python environment. However, to successfully use Kiwoom Open API I need to set up pandas in ...
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ActiveX control was registered from dll file using regsvr32: cd \windows\syswow64 regsvr32 "C:\mapp\mycontrol.dll" FoxPro object is created from it using ofiscalprinter=CREATEOBJECT('...
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Since recently, I'm working in C++ with COM technology, which means using SAFEARRAY objects. One of the first challenges is seeing the contents of such an object: in the watch-window, such an object ...
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I am currently using a COM Interop DLL, generated with tlbimp, to access a proprietary COM library from C# (net8), so no source code available (TLB embedded in DLL). It works, but stops me from using ...
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I'm currently using a COM component to initialize an instance of CCertRequest from CertCliLib. I would like to move to CSWin32 with that, but it seems the CCertRequest does not implement any ...
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I have a simple script to make file transfers between a local directory and an MTP device. For the MTP device, I created a ComObject and traversed to the desired directory. Then, I use the CopyHere ...
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When launching MMC in 64-bit Windows, MMC64 will start, then if the -32 switch was passed in the command line, MMC64 will try and start MMC32 and, if succesful, MMC64 will terminate. When creating an ...
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I can use an out-of-process COM server that is not registered with C# dynamic, and this works fine, but I cannot get events to work. My code basically is something like this: Process.Start("path\\...
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I've recently started doing a bit of Python coding, using VS Code, to create macros / applications for CATIA (using it's COM interface). In CATIA itself, I can use the included VBA editor to write ...
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I'm migrating an automated test workflow from Vector VtestStudio to a Python-based tool. Previously, in VtestStudio, we could execute a separate .can CAPL script in the middle of a test without issues....
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The documentation on delete on paste states: If the target does not do an optimized move, it calls the IDataObject::SetData method with the CFSTR_PERFORMEDDROPEFFECT format set to DROPEFFECT_MOVE. ...
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I have implemented INetworkListManagerEvents interface to get network connectivity state changes as a C# class. In my project, the INetworkListManagerEvents is code generated via CsWin32 source ...
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I'm building a Windows Service in C# (.NET Framework 4.8) that should automatically import sales receipts from XML files into Comarch ERP Optima. The service is supposed to create a COM session using ...
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I'm debugging an older Winforms application running on .NET 4.8 which is using some COM components. Occasionally, it throws this exception and then crashes: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: 'Could ...
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Though I've got built example from msdn-docs on how to Expose .NET Core components to COM with C:\COMServerDemo>dotnet build build.proj after changing in *.proj files of Server & Client <...
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I have 2 DLLs. I want create instance of class in my second DLL that I declare at .idl file of first library. But I get Error Link 2001 on CLSID, when try to link second DLL. I'm linking with first ...
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I am trying to update Pivot Tables in Excel using PowerShell. The PivotTable is based on a normal range, and I'm writing: $newSource = "'Sheet1'!R1C1:R${lastRow}C7" $pivotSheetNames = @(&...
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I'm trying to wrap my head around on how to make a .NET 8 dll callable as a COM host in order to create a custom InfoTip on Explorer for a specific extension (.t1k). I know that SharpShell is a very ...
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I am creating a COM server using native C++. And I need to use void pointer as a parameter type in the server interface. [ dual, oleautomation, uuid(E62A1CB0-86A7-40AE-AFE4-75562C32A498) ] ...
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After installing Windows 11 Update 24H2, I have not been able to work with a COM Library developed with C# and accessed from Delphi. The failure occurs when I do a Where filter using a numeric ...
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Yes, you read the title correctly - this is an issue that only occurs when UAC is off (for example, with the built-in Administrator account on Windows Server systems). Repro steps: Create a COM-...
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I've written a Windows Explorer clone, and while it's been an adventure, most of the stuff is now working fine. But, I have this problem: when I right-click an item and the Windows 11-style Explorer ...
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I defined the following IDispatch-only interface in my C# project: [ComVisible(true)] [InterfaceType(ComInterfaceType.InterfaceIsIDispatch)] [Guid("3532C4E8-D320-487C-8BD4-...
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I was using the following code for years and it worked fine. The Code was used as a Com-Component in vba from ms-Access. Now since we updated to Windows 11 and Office 365 IsValidSid is returning false ...
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I would like to convert Windows status constants to human-readable error messages, and I seem to be failing. The following code is little helpful: #include <Windows.h> #include <comdef.h> ...
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There is a test project that shows the contents of a notepad, in perspective the contents of other window elements: <Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk"> <PropertyGroup> &...
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I have a series of functions and objects in C++ that will be called/invoked by Lua, I already have existing code that does exactly this (using the MFC COM dispatch) for VBScript (see the bottom of ...
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I have a Namespace Extension (NSE) that presents distributed data as "files" with the root of my NSE under alongside OneDrive, etc. Most functionality works as expected. While debugging ...
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I try to set an excel column to autofit width using com automation. I get an access violation when calling Invoke. I know that the range that points to the column is ok, because I can use it to change ...
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I'm writing twinBASIC, which is basically VB6 successor code. The purpose of my program is to connect to a language server over STD I/O (like deno.exe lsp). I'm trying to achieve this in the following ...
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I'm integrating in Java with a DLL that allows me to add an instance to be notified. I have tried several solutions and in none of them was the COM object able to notify me. I suspect that the way I ...
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If you navigate Explorer into a shell namespace extension, and then navigate away from the namespace extension into some other folder branch, then Explorer will release all instances of the namespace ...
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I am automating the creation of Excel workbook with PowerShell scripts. I can create an Excel instance with either add-type -assembly Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel $xls = new-object Microsoft.Office....
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I have recently upgraded my application from Delphi 7 to Delphi 10.4. My application launches VBA 6.5, which kind of is hosted within Delphi (i.e. it vanishes along with the main application). I am ...
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ref: ISystemMediaTransportControlsInterop I compiled a dll about ISystemMediaTransportControlsInterop::GetForWindow. I use IDA to decompile it. Then I wrote the C-like code as Python. I believe that I ...
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I've tried a few different ways of enumerating redirected USB devices using the Remote Desktop ActiveX control in PowerShell but haven't been able to figure out a way to achieve this. That is, USB ...
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I have an out of proc COM server packaged as an MSIX. I also have the following idl file, declare_guid(CLSID_ComServerProxyStub, BA5A4D3C-56D8-4F3D-885D-C30B2405BDA5); [ object, uuid(FA601A80-...
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I am trying to develop a very basic HelloWorld example, where an unpackaged (exe based) client is trying to talk to a out of proc COM server which is packaged as an msix. I am using windows template ...
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I try to make Windows show several thumbnails for forms created at runtime in the group with the main form. So, when the mouse hovers over the icon of the main form, I want to see the thumbnail for ...
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For instance, I would like to be able to iterate through all the programs in a signal controller and have the green time start 3 seconds later. I cannot figure out how to change any attributes of a ...
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