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How can I place an activex property in a specified category other than misc.
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Hi
I am trying to develop a class library that utilizes COM+ services using the ServiceConfig class in EnterpriseServices namespace and executes a piece of code in a transaction. The method does distributed database access. One of the database is sqlserver and I am able to acess the data fine. However, when trying to acess data on the DB2 running on a OS/390 platform, I get this exception "Attempt to establish connection failed with security reason "17" ("UNSUPPORTED FUNCTION"). SQLSTATE=08001". I have DB2 Connect version 8.2 installed and also created a datasource for accessing data.
I am not sure if I need to change any security settings in the DBM provided by DB2 Connect? However, if I don't utilize COM+ service in my class and do the DB2 database access, everything works fine. So, it is something related to COM+.
Also, is distributed database transactions using MSDTC supported for DB2 on OS/390?
Please help....
Thanks
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I am having problems using CoMarshalInterThreadInterfaceInStream/CoGetInterfaceAndReleaseStream. I have a smart pointer IXMLDOMDocumentPtr which I want to share between a few different threads. I want to marshal it across my threads. I am using the aforementioned functions to do the same. What I see is that both the functions above return an S_OK and I finally get a IXMLDOMDocumentPtr in the other thread. I can use XPath to select nodes etc but when I try to get the owner document an exception is thrown "Invalid access to memory location".
In thread A I do the following:
typedef MSXML2::IXMLDOMDocumentPtr XML2DocumentPtr;
XML2DocumentPtr pDocXML;
pDocXML.CreateInstance(CLSID_DOMDocument);
pDocXML->load( "c://config.xml");
IStream* pIStream = NULL;
IID iid = __uuidof(IXMLDOMDocument);
HRESULT hr = CoMarshalInterThreadInterfaceInStream( iid, pDocXML.GetInterfacePtr(), &pIStream);
In thread B I do the following:
IID iid = __uuidof(IXMLDOMDocument);
XML2DocumentPtr pDocXML = NULL;
HRESULT hr = CoGetInterfaceAndReleaseStream(m_pIStream, iid, (LPVOID*)&pDocXML);
m_pIStream has already been saved after the CoMarshalInterThreadInterfaceInStream.
When I use the pDocXML to query the xml document for elements, nodes I can do that. But when I use the elements and nodes to ask for the owner document in order to create a new element or a node, I get the above mentioned exception "Invalid access to memory location". Any ideas as to what I might be doing wrong?
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Have you tried marshalling through the GlobalInterfaceTable (GIT) instead?Since you are using the same interface in multiple threads this could be a comfy solution by simply register all the interfaces you need in the GIT and get them in your threads.
Don't forget to revoke the interfaces when your done...
I assume you have initialized COM in your threads with calls to ::CoInitializeEx....
--
Roger
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Here is the problem.
I have several ActiveX objects that comunicate with each other. There is a central object, invisible, registered as active object with RegisterActiveObject() and several other objects that comunicate with it. Methods of the central object are called through IDispatch and events are trapped by "plugging" (with Advise()) an interface pointer in central object's connection point for events. Comunication works fine as long as all the objects are in the same process, when i put the central object in another process it doesn't work any more, I get a CO_INITIALIZE exception. I've tried to call CoInitialize in central object's thread but it still doesn't work.
If anyone could help me i would be very happy.
Thanks in advance.
Marius
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I have an dual interface from which i am derving another interface..when i implement both the interface in the same class and when i compile i am getting "error MIDL2020 : error generating type library : AddImplType failed "
error message.
any help please..
Thanks
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I have a simple test automation server (Delphi) that contains two coclasses, Foo & Bar. Foo has two properties that return an instance of Bar. At startup, Foo & the first instance of Bar are created in the main thread. A side thread creates the second property instance of Bar. All threads are intialized multithreaded & all class factories are free threaded and multi instance. The problem is when a late binding client, such as vbscript, attempts to access the second property, it claims it is not an object
Set Prop = Foo.Property2
Access to first property is fine. Compile so that both instances are created in main htread, no problem. Even though marshalling shouldn't be required in mutithreaded, I tried that as well w no change in behavior. This could be a Delphi problem, but I wanted to check to see if this could be a known COM limitation
Thanks
Bill
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hope someone can help
im converting a c dll to an activex control (apparently the users cant figure out how to use a dll in vb) and have managed to get most of it functioning in a skeletal kind of way ... what im stuck with is the data
the code reads data from an external source within the activex and ive made it store it in an internal buffer ... i cant seem to get access to the data from vb ... i keep getting an error along the lines of "data type not supported by visual basic"
my question is ... what data type should i use to read and store raw byte data in the activex such that it can be read by the vb app?
thnx
"there is no spoon"
biz stuff about me
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l a u r e n wrote:
what data type should i use to read and store raw byte data in the activex such that it can be read by the vb app?
Basically any type defined by OLE Automation. That includes standard Microsoft types, but also those that you have defined in IDL. This is assuming that your client is Visual Basic, and not VBScript. VBScript is utterly lame and will only handle standard OLE types and enums, AFAIK.
How are you exposing your data? Arrays? Linked lists? Structures?
Good music: In my rosary[^]
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hi jorgen
i looked thru the available types but didnt see a BYTE type thing ... did i miss it? in terms of exposing the data from the control to the VB client app im basically making the data a property of the control ... they can call a ReadData method to "refresh" the data from the source and there will be a WriteData method to send modified data back to the source
essentially it is 256 bytes of raw data
"there is no spoon"
biz stuff about me
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VB understands the BYTE type, but it sounds like you are passing a byte array, not a byte. Have you tried declaring the parameter as a SAFEARRAY??
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Damn. rwestgraham beat me to it.
You will want to stuff the safearray into a VARIANT though, which you pass between C++ and VB. IDL supports a special safearray syntax, but VB doesn't understand it.
Good music: In my rosary[^]
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ok hmmmmm now u lost me ... i thought variants were single variables so how can i stuff an array into one?
if im being dumb just tell me and i'll stop asking dumb questions
"there is no spoon"
biz stuff about me
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Not dumb, this stuff is complicated. I tested the below code in VC++6/VB6 and it worked.
ATL/C++ Server Code:
***************************************************************************
STDMETHODIMP CVBArray::GetVBArray(VARIANT *MyArray)
{
//Create a sample byte array and initialize with zeros
//256 is small, so don't bother creating on the heap
unsigned char bytearray[256] = {0};
//Declare a pointer to the byte array
unsigned char* pbytearray = bytearray;
//Set every other byte to 1
for(int i = 0; i <256; i+=2)
{
bytearray[i] = 1;
}
//Now comes the fun part!!!!
//Call VariantInit to initialize our return parameter
VariantInit(MyArray);
//Set the type of the return paramter to VT_UI1
//VB will recognize VT_UI1 as an unsigned char i.e. byte
MyArray->vt = VT_ARRAY| VT_UI1;
//Declare a pointer for a SAFEARRAY
SAFEARRAY* psa;
//Declare a SAFEARRAYBOUND and initialize it to the correct size
SAFEARRAYBOUND bounds = {sizeof(bytearray), 0};
//Create the SAFEARRAY using the type, dimension, and array length
psa = SafeArrayCreate(VT_UI1, 1, &bounds);
//Declare a null pointer for access to the SAFEARRAY's array
void* pSafeArrayData = NULL;
//Now set the pointer to the SAFEARRAY array (must be cast as void**)
SafeArrayAccessData(psa, (void**)(&pSafeArrayData));
//Let's review: We now have a local byte array populated with data.
//We also now have a SAFEARRAY object with a data buffer the size of our byte array.
//We have created a pointer for the SAFEARRAY's data buffer.
//We have "unlocked" the SAFEARRAY's data buffer and set our pointer to it
// by calling SafeArrayAccessData.
//Now all we need to do is copy our local data into the SAFEARRAY data buffer
// the clean up and return.
//Copy bytearray into SAFEARRAY buffer
memcpy(pSafeArrayData, pbytearray, sizeof(bytearray));
pbytearray = NULL;
//"Lock" the SAFEARRAY.
SafeArrayUnaccessData(psa);
//Set the SAFEARRAY we just created and populated to the return parameter.
MyArray->parray = psa;
//Now we are ready to return
return S_OK;
}
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VB Code:
**************************************************************************
Private Sub GetArrayFromCOM()
Dim oServer As New vbArray
Dim testItems() As Byte
Dim i As Long
Dim count As Long
Dim strShow As String
testItems = oServer.GetVBArray
count = UBound(testItems)
For i = 0 To count
strShow = strShow & " " & CStr(testItems(i))
Next i
MsgBox strShow
End Sub
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And he beat me to it again! Jeez, I need to stop seeing women, because obviously they're taking up too much of my time.. 
To make rwestgraham's story short, it's the vt field of the variant which holds the secret. If you give it the value of VT_UI1|VT_ARRAY you can stuff a BYTE-safearray into it. You can even stuff structures (VT_RECORD) in there too, should you ever have feel masochistic. 
Good music: In my rosary[^]
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Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote:
And he beat me to it again!
My dev machine crashed on Monday, I've been using that as an excuse to screw around doing nothing but surf the web, LOL.
Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote:
I need to stop seeing women, because obviously they're taking up too much of my time..
I need to start seeing women, LOL. If you spend as much time with women as I spend masturbating, I envy you. :->
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rwestgraham wrote:
If you spend as much time with women as I spend masturbating, I envy you.
 release and go query some woman's interface. Beats addrefing yourself. Just finding the right interface is fun as it is!
Good music: In my rosary[^]
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Actually, I have a live in. But these days I'm more interested in querying some IUnknowns, LOL. Just gotta make sure you use MarshalByLatex before you insert your stub into some strange proxy. :->
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Hi!
I´m reading a Excel-Sheet by calling the Excel-COM-Object with the following code:
Excel.Application ExcelObj = new Excel.Application();
Excel.Workbook theWorkbook = ExcelObj.Workbooks.Open(filename, false, true, 5, "", "", true, Excel.XlPlatform.xlWindows, "\t", false, false, 0, true, true, true);
Excel.Sheets sheets = theWorkbook.Worksheets;
Excel.Worksheet worksheet = (Excel.Worksheet)sheets.get_Item(sheetNumber);
for (int i = startRow; i <= endRow; i++)
{
Excel.Range range = worksheet.get_Range(startCol + i.ToString(), endCol + i.ToString());
System.Array myvalues = (System.Array)range.Cells.Value2;
string[] strArray = ConvertToStringArray(myvalues);
storage.Add(strArray);
}
ExcelObj.Quit();
My problem is, that Excel does not really quit but stay in my task-manager.
What do i have to do to make Excel to leave my memory?
Thanks!
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Hello:
I am developping my first COM project  , that in fact is an attempt to split a previous project into a client and a COM server. Since I'm not very experienced in this field, I'm having linking errors when trying to compile the server:
winComServer.cpp
Linking...
winComServer_i.obj : error LNK2005: _CLSID_CoServer already defined in winComServer.obj
winComServer_i.obj : error LNK2005: _LIBID_WINCOMSERVERLib already defined in winComServer.obj
winComServer_i.obj : error LNK2005: _IID_ICoServer already defined in winComServer.obj
I have been reading several forums about this kind of problems with no possitive results.
I'm NOT including "initguid.h" from "stdafx.h", that seems to be a source of problems.
Any help would be really welcomed.
Jose M
-- modified at 9:13 Monday 12th September, 2005
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I have solved the problem:
I had changed my precompiled headers settings. I must use them in order to make the app works.
Sorry guys, no winners this time. Next time you shoud be faster  .
Jose M
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Hi,
I have tried to show an ActiveX Control on a Window in SDI application. I used the following API,
CLSID clsid; //clsid of activex control
IUnknown* pIunknown;
HRESULT hResult;
hResult = CoCreateInstance( clsid, NULL,
CLSCTX_INPROC_SERVER|CLSCTX_INPROC_HANDLER,
IID_IUnknown, (void**)&pIunknown );
But still the Control is not display.......
Where lies the Error? Can anyone help me out?
-- modified at 5:31 Monday 12th September, 2005
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Friends,
I want to develop a ActiveX control container,and save data in flat(uncompound) document.
My document CxxDoc is derived from COleDocument,and the constructor as following:
CxxDoc::CxxDoc()
{
// EnableCompoundFile();
// ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^I need a flat (uncompound) file.so i delete it.
...
}
Firstly, Is it OK????Can i save data in flat document?
Secondly,my client item is CxxClientItem,
class CxxClientItem : public COleClientItem
The WriteItem and ReadItem function (copied from the sample program of ActiceX control test container in Visual C++) as follows. They can work correctly in compound document. Please tell me how to change them from compound document to flat(uncompound) document. I'm a new and I do need your help.
void CxxClientItem::WriteItem( CArchive& ar )
{
USES_CONVERSION;
IStoragePtr pStorage;
IStreamPtr pStream;
IPersistStreamInitPtr pPSI;
TCHAR szItemName[64];
HRESULT hResult;
IPersistStoragePtr pPersistStorage;
CxxDoc* pDoc;
CLSID clsid;
(void)ar;
pDoc = GetDocument();
ASSERT_VALID( pDoc );
ASSERT( pDoc->m_lpRootStg != NULL );
// ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^It is wrong in uncompound document
ASSERT( pDoc->m_bCompoundFile );
// ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^It is wrong in uncompound document
ASSERT( m_lpStorage != NULL );
ASSERT( !ar.m_bForceFlat );
GetItemName( szItemName );
if( !pDoc->m_bSameAsLoad )
{
hResult = pDoc->m_lpRootStg->CreateStorage( T2COLE( szItemName ),STGM_CREATE|STGM_READWRITE|STGM_TRANSACTED|STGM_SHARE_EXCLUSIVE, 0, 0, &pStorage );
// ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^It is wrong in uncompound document
if( FAILED( hResult ) )
{
AfxThrowOleException( hResult );
}
m_lpNewStorage = pStorage;
m_lpNewStorage->AddRef();
m_bNeedCommit = TRUE;
}
else
{
pStorage = m_lpStorage;
}
......
}
void CxxClientItem::ReadItem( CArchive& ar )
{
USES_CONVERSION;
BOOL tUsedStream;
IStoragePtr pStorage;
IPersistStreamInitPtr pPSI;
IStreamPtr pStream;
TCHAR szItemName[64];
HRESULT hResult;
BOOL tQuickActivated;
IPersistStoragePtr pPersistStorage;
CLSID clsid;
(void)ar;
CxxDoc* pDoc = GetDocument();
ASSERT_VALID(pDoc);
ASSERT(pDoc->m_lpRootStg != NULL);
// ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^It is wrong in uncompound document
ASSERT(pDoc->m_bCompoundFile);
// ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^It is wrong in uncompound document
ASSERT(m_lpStorage == NULL);
ASSERT(m_lpLockBytes == NULL);
ASSERT( !ar.m_bForceFlat );
// get item name
GetItemName( szItemName );
// open storage for this item
hResult = pDoc->m_lpRootStg->OpenStorage( T2COLE( szItemName ), NULL,
STGM_READWRITE|STGM_TRANSACTED|STGM_SHARE_EXCLUSIVE, 0, 0, &pStorage );
// ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^It is wrong in uncompound document
if( hResult != S_OK )
{
TRACE1( "Warning: unable to open child storage %s.\n", szItemName );
// upon failure throw file exception (item will be cleaned up)
AfxThrowOleException( hResult );
}
ASSERT(pStorage != NULL);
// remember the storage
m_lpStorage = pStorage;
ASSERT(m_lpStorage != NULL);
m_lpStorage->AddRef();
......
}
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