Questions tagged [com]
Component Object Model (COM) is a component technology from Microsoft, featuring remoting, language independence and interface-based programming.
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Create Word Document in C++
I am new to COM programming in C++ and while this code works welcome suggestions to improve readability/reliability. This creates a blank word document and adds the text Hello, World.
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C# Dictionary Wrapper for VBA
I am a technical reviewer/writer and I use VBA for Word a lot to manage issues in Word documents I receive. I have frequently come across niggles when using Collections, Scripting.Dictionaries or ...
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Not so Excellent Knight's Tour
Note: This is part of a set of demo applications I'm writing for colleagues to show we're not limited to VBA when dealing with Excel. Considering our IT challenges (no admin on-site & no local-...
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(COM Callable) Python class to decompile *.chm file with Microsoft HTML Help Executable
Windows only. So I am writing code to decompile a Windows compiled html help file (*.chm) and then tidy the files found within. Whilst, I have blogged some simple Python examples I now want to ...
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Updating Excel sheet with information from a DataTable
Basically, I'm trying to update an excel sheet using a DataTable (The columns structure between the two are not the same) with respect to the following rules:
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SAFEARRAY export from a C++ DLL to VBA
My code is not very elegant, but I'm a total newbie in c++ and I consider it already a major achievement that I managed to write something that actually works.
As background, I'm defining in VBA the ...
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Compact a file of 'Compound binary file format'
I am working on a modelling application written in C++ and MFC. The generated model is saved as a compound file. For various reasons, I need to compact the compound file therefore I decided to write a ...
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Automating the download of a GitHub repo
This script is designed to locate and download the first repository in your sidebar on the GitHub repository page. It downloads the .zip file for that repo and saves it to the default location.
I ...
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Properly destroying the VBE
The disposable wrappers worked exactly as intended... and that turned out being a huge mistake:
That's because the .net runtime creates a Runtime Callable Wrapper per-type, not per-instance*; it took ...
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A generic IEnumerator to enumerate COM collections
As I wrapped the VBIDE API, I encountered a number of "collection types" (Windows, CodePanes, ...
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Wrapping COM objects with IDisposable
One of the things believed to contribute to destabilizing Rubberduck 2.x, is the fact that a lot of COM object references are stored in many places, and ...
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IDTExtensibility2 implementation for Rubberduck's entry point
Here is the new & improved Rubberduck 2.x entry point class, based on MZ-Tools 8.0's Connect.VBA implementation of the ...
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Shared VB6 *and* VBA extensibility add-in with OnConnect and OnDisconnect handling
Rubberduck works well enough when the VBE is of the VBA variety, but it currently only works when the Rubberduck is configured to load at VBA start-up, and it has a tendency to crash the host ...
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Find installed and available Windows Updates
I have a function that uses Windows Update Agent (WUA) API through COM using the win32com.client module, part of pywin32 package for retrieving the installed and the available (not yet installed) ...
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A status bar for the VBE
One of the most annoying things about the VBE (VBA's IDE), is that it doesn't have a status bar.
Rubberduck 2.0 works around this by introducing the ...
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A class (actually a structure) to help decode an HRESULT
HRESULTs are the common way for Microsoft technologies like COM and Win32 to return either an error code or messages that mean a specific type of success. They are usually returned as the result of a ...
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IDataConvert::Release() does not return 0
In order to convert a database type DB_NUMERIC to real, I noticed that a call to IDataConvert::Release() does not return ...
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Milking a COM type library: “fun” with COM reflection
Once upon a time, there was a duck that wanted to know where and how user code was calling into the VBA standard library and Excel object model. To match the rest of its API, the poor little duck had ...
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Step by Step, ooh HotKey
Still hooked on Windows, I refactored the hook into a number of interfaces, and I wanted to support 2-step hotkeys, so I started with defining an IHook that can be ...
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Hooked on Windows
The code that was just added to Rubberduck will allow us to set up hotkeys for our features, so that next release, Ctrl+Shift+R brings up the refactor/rename dialog, for example.
The requirements ...
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Using COM objects in plain C
In this code, I am creating a COM object to programatically access internet explorer. In order to access this object's properties and methods, I am writing wrapper functions like ...
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COMpatible+ Google+ Integrations+ Scoping+
So I have part of a library which deals with scopes in Google+ integration, and I'm curious on the overall view of it.
Yes, things are stringly typed in one of the methods, that is because this has ...
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Hook COM Object and get data from SIEMENS Step 7 software to control PLC through events in their code modified at runtime
I'm a first traveler coding in WinApi, Hooks, COM objects. Then, I made a dll to inject (EasyHook) this in the target SIEMENS Step7 process and modify the software code at runtime:
Maybe I want some ...
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Inspector Rubberduck
Our Rubberduck open-source VBE add-in project is coming along nicely. One of the main features we're going to be implementing in the next release, is code inspections.
I started by defining an ...
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Tuning Excel calculation engine which uses MS Excel interop
I am currently building an Excel calculation engine. Its purpose is basically to wrap the calculation logic of an Excel workbook in order to use the logic from a C# library.
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Integrating Unit Testing functionality into an old COM-based IDE
My UnitTesting add-in works nicely, but it has dependencies on a Reflection and a System add-...
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Passing a 1D array (single column of a Range object) to .NET to manipulate it without loops and returning it back to VBA
Background
Kind of a follow up - slightly related to my other SO question.
I thought that if somehow I find a way in VBA to pass a single column to .NET and convert it to a native .NET type then I ...
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C++ application calling C# Dll marshalling strings
The code appears to work fine. The values are returned as expected from the DLL and the values are added correctly to the DLL.
Will the way I am passing the string to C# cause a memory leak?
Also, ...
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C++ Wrapper for SAFEARRAY
Here is a C++ wrapper for SAFEARRAY, including the ability to expose it as a VARIANT, and to create one out of VARIANT.
I am aware of CComSafeArray, however i don't use VC++ so I do not have ...
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Conversion between QString and BSTR
I'm currently working on a Qt project writing Excel files through a third party DLL.
As the third party DLL has a COM interface, I have to do lots of conversions between QString and BSTR...
I wrote ...
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Find password to a word document
I am using Java and COM4j to communicate with Word. The approach I used here is brute force. I have a password protected .doc, and I forgot its password.
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VARIANT structure deserialization code organization
In my project i work with COM object via System.Reflection. COM object returns pointer on structure VARIANT, that i cast as <...
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Proper way of using IXMLDOMDocument
I am trying to use IXMLDOMDocument for XML reading/writing. I am not good COM, and I am not aware that I am doing things right or wrong. I am very unsure that there could be some problems with COM ...
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Is brute force the accepted best practice for handling Excel COM 'busy' exceptions?
Following on from a question about handling-com-exceptions-busy-codes I would like to know if the following model is the accepted best practice of handling Excel COM busy messages when accessing the ...
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D3D COM Object Pooling
I'm using the following pattern to pool D3D objects globally in my application. Is it a good idea (alternatives)? Is it thread-safe?
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