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Atif Bashir30-Jul-03 16:58

30-Jul-03 16:58

I'm student. I've to make a plug-in for MS Outlook. This plug-in will take a particular date, and will delete all the attchments of the e-mails which are older than that specific date.
Kindly guide me for the task. Provide/guide me some sample code if possible. I'll be very grateful to you.
Waiting for your kind response.
Atif

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Asyncrous Callbacks with Connection Points

Giles30-Jul-03 7:22

Giles

30-Jul-03 7:22

I need to put together an ATL COM object making use of connection points to fire Events for a VB client app.

The problem is the Events will need to be fired asyncrously as when I call a particular method it goes of and creates a worker thread. I need to fire events from the worker thread multipe times back to the VB client, problem is that its now in another apartment as far as the origional thread is concerned, so COM will get upset if I user the interface pointer straight off.

From what I can tell it looks like I need to enlist the help of CoMarshalInterThreadInterfaceInStream. Does anyone have any pointers on a problem like this. Its basiclly real time data to a VB client.

As an aside, I know for Excel you can use DDE (tres old) or RTD for a higher though put in Excel XP, but not interested in this yet.

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Re: Asyncrous Callbacks with Connection Points

Giles30-Jul-03 11:51

Giles

30-Jul-03 11:51

Seems like I found something : http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/Q280/5/12.ASP&NoWebContent=1[^]

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Thread Apartment pop quiz

melwyn30-Jul-03 4:06

melwyn

30-Jul-03 4:06

Which of the following does not exist:
a) single thread apartment
b) multi thread apartment
c) cross thread apartment
d) thread neutral apartment

ActiveXControl/COM Component. Please help me!

heju29-Jul-03 21:12

heju

29-Jul-03 21:12

Hi,

I have create an ActiveXControl. It runs, but after one cycle it hangs in the memory.
I know that one solution are the functions AddRef() and Release(), but I don't know how I can use this and where. Please help me.

Julia

Re: ActiveXControl/COM Component. Please help me!

MartinOrtiz31-Jul-03 12:16

MartinOrtiz

31-Jul-03 12:16

what do you mean " hangs in the memory"? Do you mean after you're done, there's still a floating referance to it somewhere?

You must call Release() on it, basically every time you use a referance to it, you call AddRef, and when you're done, call Release. Technically you're supposed to maintain an "accounting" of all this, but it can lead to insanity. If you're not passing referances to "outside" sources, you should be able to call Release() on it when you're done (the initial AddRef is done automatically).
OR you can use Smart pointers....look up Smart pointers in VC docs, they will do all this automatically.

Basic doubt about ATL com component distribution

Venkateswar Rao29-Jul-03 3:46

Venkateswar Rao

29-Jul-03 3:46

Hi I have created a ATL COM dll.The component will be used in WINDOWS 2000 machines which will not have Visual Studio.What are the ATL com dlls that I have to distribute along with the COM component?Please help.

Rgds,
venkatesh

Microsoft Script Control Run-time error

FAADI29-Jul-03 0:16

FAADI

29-Jul-03 0:16

I am using script control. when i add a procedure to the script control.if the procedure is error free then it works fine, but if there is a run-time error then a dialog box with the title "Just-In Time Debugging" and containg the option of .Net Studio that do you want to debug it. I want that this dialog box should not be displayed and i can handle this runtime error myself.

Re: Microsoft Script Control Run-time error

Vi229-Jul-03 1:31

Vi2

29-Jul-03 1:31

Look at
http://home.worldonline.dk/viksoe/atlscript.htm[^]
or MSDN's
SAMPLE: 4thScrpt.exe Demos Active Debugging in ATL ActiveX Script Engine[^]
and
SAMPLE: SamScrpt.exe Demonstrates Active Debugging in C++ ActiveX Script Engine[^]

With best wishes,
Vita

Basic COM automation doubts, Please help.

Venkateswar Rao27-Jul-03 23:20

Venkateswar Rao

27-Jul-03 23:20

Hi
Is integer a COM automation data type?I am using windows 2000.My COM application should work for VC++ as well as VB.

If the interface method has parameters other than VARIANT will the scripting clients like VBA work?

Please help.

Rgds,
Venkatesh

Re: Basic COM automation doubts, Please help.

first_sandy28-Jul-03 1:22

first_sandy

28-Jul-03 1:22

Hi Venkatesh,

Well you can use "long" data type in your COM servers as it is compatible for both VC++ and scripting clients.

Other type that works fine is BSTR.

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Re: Basic COM automation doubts, Please help.

Venkateswar Rao28-Jul-03 1:58

Venkateswar Rao

28-Jul-03 1:58

Hi Sandy,
Thank you.

Rgds,
Venkatesh

how to return from IDispatch invoke?

safee ullah27-Jul-03 21:14

safee ullah

27-Jul-03 21:14

hi there..

i am working on a spread sheet control..and need to know if there is any problem with the way i am returning from the Invoke call..

When run this method throws an access violation...any ideas.??

here is the code..

long CControl :: GetObjCellCol(long ObjID)
{
DISPPARAMS DispParam1;
EXCEPINFO excep;
UINT nArgErr;
DISPID dispidNamed;
VARIANT * pResult = NULL;

DispParam1.cArgs = 1; //number of arguments
DispParam1.cNamedArgs = 0; // named arguments.
DispParam1.rgdispidNamedArgs = &dispidNamed;
// Dispatch IDs of named arguments.

DispParam1.rgvarg = new VARIANTARG();

DispParam1.rgvarg->vt = VT_I4;
DispParam1.rgvarg->lVal = ObjID;

IImpl::Invoke(DISPID_F1_CellCol, IID_NULL , 0 , NULL, &DispParam1,pResult , &excep, &nArgErr);
return pResult->lVal;
}

Re: how to return from IDispatch invoke?

Mike Dimmick28-Jul-03 2:27

Mike Dimmick

28-Jul-03 2:27

pResult is NULL. You should be passing the address of a valid VARIANT structure, i.e.:

VARIANT vtResult = { 0 };
 
// ...
 
IImpl::Invoke( 
    DISPID_F1_CellCol,
    IID_NULL,
    0,
    NULL,
    &DispParam1,
    &vtResult,
    &excep,
    &nArgErr 
);
 
return vtResult.lVal;

When the called component comes to fill in the result value, it tries to write through a NULL pointer and causes the access violation.

Hope this helps.

Re: how to return from IDispatch invoke?

safee ullah28-Jul-03 2:53

safee ullah

28-Jul-03 2:53

oooooooooops
thanks Smile | :)

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BHO

manuboy27-Jul-03 11:56

manuboy

27-Jul-03 11:56

I'm relatively new to c++ / com. I'm attempting to use a BHO in an intranet environment to add headers to specific urls. My problem is that using the code below, my new header doesn't turn up at the server (testing with an asp page that dumps all headers + an IP packet sniffer).

USES_CONVERSION;<br />
HRESULT hr ;<br />
<br />
if (pDispParams->cArgs >= 5 && pDispParams->rgvarg[5].vt == VT_BYREF|VT_VARIANT))<br />
{<br />
      CComVariant vtURL(*pDispParams->rgvarg[5].pvarVal);	<br />
      vtURL.ChangeType(VT_BSTR);<br />
<br />
      if (strstr(OLE2CA(vtURL.bstrVal), urlSearchList))<br />
      {<br />
	// cancel the navigation<br />
	pDispParams->rgvarg[0].boolVal = VARIANT_TRUE;<br />
<br />
	// send stop to browser<br />
	hr = m_spWebBrowser2->Stop();<br />
	if (FAILED(hr))<br />
 	  return hr;<br />
<br />
	CComBSTR    bstrHeaders("NewHeader: Header1\n\r");<br />
	CComVariant newUrl(vtURL.bstrVal);<br />
	newUrl.ChangeType(VT_BSTR);<br />
			<br />
	CComVariant vHeaders(bstrHeaders.m_str);<br />
	vHeaders.ChangeType(VT_BSTR|VT_BYREF);<br />
	<br />
        // navigate!<br />
	hr = m_spWebBrowser2->Navigate2(&newUrl, NULL, NULL, NULL, &vHeaders);<br />
	if (FAILED(hr))<br />
	  return hr;<br />
      }<br />
  }

The MSDN docs for the naviagte2 method show the headers arg as being pointer to variant. Am i using the wrong type?

Any links, code, or pointers much appreciated... WTF | :WTF:

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Re: BHO

Michael Dunn27-Jul-03 12:07

Michael Dunn

27-Jul-03 12:07

You don't need this line:

vHeaders.ChangeType(VT_BSTR|VT_BYREF);

because you're using the CComVariant ctor that makes it a string. (And BTW the type is VT_BSTR not VT_BSTR|VT_BYREF).

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Re: BHO

manuboy27-Jul-03 12:12

manuboy

27-Jul-03 12:12

Thanks Michael, i should have seen that ... unfortunately using just VT_BSTR (which i began with before i got desperate and just started experimenting) doesn't solve the problem.

Is there a way to determine what field of the struct to load when the documentation just says Variant *??? Or is the data type not really my problem?

Getting selected folder in a namespace extension

Mike Hartway25-Jul-03 14:28

Mike Hartway

25-Jul-03 14:28

I am implementing a namespace extension and I need to be able to determine what item is selected in the tree view (left hand pane in explorer) which is an IShellFolder implementation.

I can get the selection notification in the listview (right hand pane) in my implementation of IShellView via the IShellView's WndProc callback, but I can find no such mechanism in the IShellFolder.

Is there another interface in addition to IShellFolder that I need to implement in order to get this info or am I just missing something more obvious?

Many thanks!

Mike Hartway

How to SendMessage to a windowless Ctrl

ray_li25-Jul-03 5:41

ray_li

25-Jul-03 5:41

Hi! everybody:

I'm developing a ActiveX control which is a windowless, If I find something special in my class, I want to SendMessage to this ctrl and let it do something , but I can not get the window handle of this ctrl, so this ctrl also can not get this message.(I have tried AfxGetMainWnd, it doesn't work)

Does anyone has similar experience? Plesae give me some ideas, I'll appreciate
your help.

Ray

Re: How to SendMessage to a windowless Ctrl

John M. Drescher25-Jul-03 6:54

John M. Drescher

25-Jul-03 6:54

ray_li wrote:
I have tried AfxGetMainWnd, it doesn't work

If your control is windowless there is no window handle so AfxGetMainWnd will not work...

John

Re: How to SendMessage to a windowless Ctrl

MartinOrtiz31-Jul-03 12:24

MartinOrtiz

31-Jul-03 12:24

Why use SendMessage??? Won't a regular COM method be sufficient, and easier??

If you you need to use SendMessage, make it a window control and check off the : "invisible at runtime" option

COM+ / MSMQ

sam_jr24-Jul-03 17:05

sam_jr

24-Jul-03 17:05

Is MSMQ merged with COM+?

COM+ = COM + MTS + MSMQ
or
COM+ = COM + MTS

Confused | :confused:

Re: COM+ / MSMQ

ICBM25-Jul-03 15:02

ICBM

25-Jul-03 15:02

COM+ contains a superset of the functionality of MTS. In the case of MSMQ, the concepts and implementation are considerably different in COM+ than in the original MSMQ. In the original, all objects had to know that they were supporting MSMQ, and had to agree message formats etc. In COM+, use of asynchronous calls is more of less invisible to the client.

Get hold of a copy of COM and .NET Component Services by Juval Lowy. It's available online at http://safari.oreilly.com too.

Closing document in Word under Automation

Dave Loeser24-Jul-03 4:52

Dave Loeser

24-Jul-03 4:52

I'm using Word Automation (using C++ here) as an out of proc exe to Find and Replace text within documents. When I create an instance of Word I would prefer to keep that instance open and then open, search/replace, close and repeat until I am finished with all documents and then quit the word application instance.

I have this working but I have an odd (or maybe it is a common) problem. When I close the document, Word becomes visible. Here's how I am closeing the document.

void CMSWord9Automation::CloseDoc()
{
	try
	{
		if(m_pOpenDoc) // Word::_DocumentPtr
		{
			//m_pWord->Visible = VARIANT_FALSE; // Does not work
			m_pWord->Documents->Close(
				&_variant_t(Word::wdDoNotSaveChanges),
				&_variant_t(vtMissing),
				&_variant_t(VARIANT_FALSE));

			//m_pWord->Visible = VARIANT_FALSE; // This resets word to invisible but isn't really the desired approach
			m_pOpenDoc.Release();
		}
	}
	catch(_com_error& ComError) 
	{
		DumpComError(ComError);
	}
}

I'm looking for any information on how to stop Word from displaying when I close the opened document.

Thanks,

Dave Dak Lozar Loeser
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