I have a simple class with only one attribute.
If this attribute is a "simple" type (String, Int, DataSet, ...), I
can create an instance of this class.
If this attribute is a Database object like an OleDbConnection or an

I have a 3rd party OCX control that I can happily use with VB6.  E.g.
Private bool As Boolean
Private ocx As OCXLib.ocxInterface
Private Sub Form_Load()

I am trying to call a Multimedia Function:
MMRESULT mixerGetID(
 HMIXEROBJ  hmxobj,  
 UINT_PTR * puMxId,  

I have built a generic assembly (we'll call it "WordAutomationWrapper") that
inspects the registry (HKCR\Word.Application\CurVer) to determine what
version of MS Word is installed.
Using that knowledge, I want to dynamically invoke one of 3 "wrappers" that

I have a C function that's declared like this:
int my_function( BSTR *input, BSTR *output ) ;
Here BSTR is the windows BSTR type.
The output argument is allocated within my_function.

I am using DirectoryServices to find all the members of a
certain NT group and display their properties. The
following code works fine.
DirectoryEntry directory = new DirectoryEntry("WinNT://"

I have a .NET form which primarily contains a legacy ActiveX control. I was
wondering if it is really worth claling ReleaseComObject on this control from
the form's dispose method.
Public Overrides Sub Dispose(ByVal disposing As Boolean)

I am trying to use C# .NET interop with Excel 2003 and I am running
into a couple of problems.
In this example, a .NET class called Ticker is in a .NET assembly dll
called AClassLibrary.  Ticker exposes a COM interface with a GetTick

I want to use few Win32 APIs in my C# code. I want to know, how to use it.
Please give me a sample code. So that I can go further.

I'm trying to write a VB.NET application that will interface with DFS
(Distributed File System)   There are WIN32 API to do this but I’m having
problems marshalling the data correctly and trying to figure out how to exact
the data returned by the function.  Below is an example of ...

I have a class derived from IDictionary that I want to use in vbscript.
None of the enumeration operations seem to work so I thought I would try out
a standard hasthable - that doesnt work either
set hash = CreateObject("System.Collections.Hashtable")

I need to run a vb.net or aspx.net file every 10 seconds. The Task Scheduler
in Windows 2003 Server can only do it every 1 minute at the minimum, but I
need it every 10 seconds. Is it possible to write a small program in VB.NET
that would run in the background without using much ...

I'm creating a library (based on the code of an article written by Bill
Vaugh) to convert ADO.net Datatables y Datasets to ADODB.Recordsets.
I just got a new dev machine with WinXP with SP2 and now when I try to use
the ADODB.Recordset object I get the error "QueryInterfce for ...

 I want to pass a function pointer to COM, so that COM can callback in some
situation.
/////////////////////////////////////
// C# compile into COM

I have a unmanaged fortran dll that Iam trying to load using LoadLibrary
from manged c++. I have to use loadlibrary, since I dont know the path to the
dll until runtime.
I can load the library, get the function pointers etc., but when I call a