I've written a VB.Net application that uses Office 2003 (Word and Excel)
automation. But, I have a mix of Windows 2K workstations with Office 2K,
Office XP, and Office 2003.
I've read KB articles about Office development under the .Net framework,

I'm having a strange problem that is probably due to my lack of
understanding of how threading & COM Interop works in a WinForms.NET
application.
Here's the situation:

I dunno if this is the right place to ask for help with ActiveX / .net /
Outlook, so ill siimpl give it a try :)
I want to develop an ActiveX Control for MS-Outlooks 2003 with Visual
Studio.Net 2003 and .net Framework 1.1 installed.

Anyone know what messages are analogous to:
MouseLeave
MouseEnter
MouseHover

I have written some code in VB.net that uses a COM object via a
reference I have add to my project. This program works as expected. I
thought it would be a neat idea to expose the functionality offered by
this program as a web service so that I can use the program across my

I am trying to use the CFSTR_SHELLIDLIST clipboard format to allow the
creation of links to files for a drag and drop operation in a C# app.
I am obtaining PIDL's to the files in question and then setting up a
CIDA structure in global memory - reading it back it seems to be in the

Is there any way to mark a .NET interop class as non-aggregatable?  My .NET
classes are being instantiated as aggegatable objects by 3rd party COM
objects, and when they're passed around to my other .NET objects they're
being passed as __ComObject because the Marshaler can't ...

I'm currently using Remoting (HTTP/Binary) to remote a simple object.
Everything is working fine except for one function that returns an arraylist
of datatables.
When I call this function, nothing is returned (ie length of array =0).

The following code snippet fails when trying to save a mailitem to a windows
folder:
I've tried many variations of path - If i supply a file name I get an
"Invalid Parameter" error - so i'm pretty sure it just wants path - and when

Hello...
I've seen about 10 ways to do this, and for whatever
reason I cant insert page breaks or linebreaks (or rather
I can, but they dont appear to happen in the resulting

How I can use different version of the same assembly in one project?
Ex: microsoft.office.interop ver 11.0 (for Office 2003) and ver 10.x (for
previous Office version).
Thx

The code at http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/bridge.asp is an example of how to call managed C++ from an unmanaged CLI program.
This code does not make any of the calls to initiate the CLR etc.
I have tried it, and it works, but I really don't understand how and why since the CLR ...

I want to use Excel-sheets as input and output in an ASP.NET environment. I
always get the message that the application has not enough priviliges to open
Excel.
Can anybody give me an idea what i have to do.  I'm working on a  localhost

Built an Office Addin with .net 2003. I have captured the save and save as
menu options so I can run my own code before the regular save function
executes. However, I have not been able to figure out how to do the same with
CTRL-S. Does anyone have any ideas?

I am using Visual Studio .NET 2003 with .NET Framework v1.1 and Service Pack
1. I am using Windows XP with Service Pack 2.
I wrote a simple C# class and exposed it through COM interop. I then wrote a
simple VBScript to create an instance of this class using CreateObject and to