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I'm trying to implement basic accessibility support for a custom GUI (server-side) - all GUI controls are custom/non-MS - via IAccessible. However, my COM framework keeps crashing.  Even pure skeletal ...
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I'm importing a TLB file in a C++ program in order to do early binding, that is working fine: #import "main.tlb" no_namespace, named_guids Then, I've embedded that TLB file in a comhost ...
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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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