just curious... looked in System.Runtime.InteropServices and couldnt find
any attribute or way to set a description (i assume that would be in the
generated MIDL)
anybody got any thoughts on this?

Has anyone got any decent working source code for using
the following API calls in .NET for monitoring print
queues? (pref. C#)
FindFirstPrinterChangeNotification

I've been a VB programmer since the joyous days of version 2.0, so I would
like to think that I have a reasonable understanding of the language by this
point. I've created COM components quite happily, and reused them in my VB6
applications for the last few years too.

   I have several questions regarding the COM interop wrappers:
       Using tlbimp tool or VS.NET add reference dialog I can generate a
managed assembly that wraps the COM component.
       Does this assembly contain inside it the CLSID or Prog ID of the COM

I've been developing in Windows XP with Office 2002.  I have written a
set of addins in C#.  They work fine in Windows XP machines with
Office 2002, but I believe that they are not working when I install
the software in Windows 2000 with Office 2000.  I downloaded and

Any thoughts on how to work around the error  "Class is
not lincese for use" when the Microsoft Remote Data
Object 2.0 is added to the References of a VB.Net Windows
app project?  The error is encountered only during the

My situation is like this -
I have a COM component A.dll that i import and make an interop library
AInterop.dll.
Now A.dll needs to access a text file in a folder which has limited access

I need to be able to call some .NET code from an old VB application.
Looking around on MSDN it looks like I should expose the .NET code as a COM
object and access the COM object from Visual Basic.
Does anyone have any experience of doing this? Is this the best strategy or

The background is something like this. We have a DotNet
Dll (e.g. MyDll) for use in ASP.NET web applications. This
code depends on web.config file to function smoothly. In
order that MyDll can be used by ASP applications we

when i ues the remote event,it shows:
it's forbidded that the type of System.DelegateSerializationHolder and the
child type of System.DelegateSerializationHolder was disserializaed on this
safety level.

I am currently translating a simulation-recording application from VB6
to VB.NET.
To capture the text that people enter in the application that must be
simulated, I deploy a lowlevel keyboard hook. This provides me with a

It seems that "ParameterModifier" play an important role
in some case,such as in "Type.InvokeMember",but how to
understand "ParameterModifier" and how to use it?
Some sample code is expected.

Sorry about the cross-post but I am in a bit of a bind.
I am developing an Add-in for Visio 2002 using VS.NET and I am having
trouble getting a reference to an excel worksheet object that exists on the
page.  Here is the code I am having a problem with (doc is declared as

Is it possible to create a window control using .NET (vb/c#) and use
it in a borland c++builder 6 application?
I've tried with some experiments and searched for information without
any luck.

I have noticed that opening a new outlook email is much slower from vb.net
than from vb/vba. I am targeting mixed office2000/officexp environments so I
am using the office2000 interop dlls generated by vs.net when adding office
2000 com reference. Outlook takes a while to open or ...