I have found an exception "Object does not match target type." in the
following circumstances:
- Using Microsoft Word 2003. It does not happen with Microsoft Word 2002.
- Using Reflection to manipulate Word instead of late binding (Option Strict

Hi,
 I'm referencing a vb dll from my .net windows application. When I deploy
this application to the client's machine should I include this dll, or is the
interop dll that vb creates enough? If I have to include the vb dll, do I

I have a third-party ActiveX component that I have brought into my c#
application using the AxHost wrapper. This gives me two assemblies,
AxInterop.Foo and Interop.Foo. Inside of each of these is a class with the
methods I expected to find--the functionality I want from the ...

I'm exporting a method from a managed C++ DLL using __declspec(dllexport) so
that I can call it from a plain old C app.
This method takes as one of its arguments a void * that comes from the C
app. I store this void * in one of the members of my managed C++ class.  

I don't know if I am in the correct newsgroup.  If I'm not, please let me
know.
I have a workstation that has recently received an installation of .Net
Framework.  This Windows 2000 machine should have never received that

I am developping an application in C# that creates outlook contacts from
a database. For the outlook part of the application, I use the outlook
COM object (Version 11 from Office 2003). If a contact is already
present in the outlook contact

I have the following interfaces in my C# project:
       [Guid("EFA1BE2F-92E3-4c69-9204-AE77D31A1E22")]
       [InterfaceType(ComInterfaceType.InterfaceIsDual)]
       public interface IMyEnumerable

I have a application that someone else has wrote that runs in a console
window.  It does not take parameters, but when running it asks three
questions and then exits.  I would like to write a small utility to attach
to the console app, send the necessary answers (typically typing ...

I created a few plugins in vb6 (activex dll) for an OCR application. Now I am
trying to re-write one simple plugin in vb.net 2005.
In vb6 I created a new ActiveX DLL, added a reference to a dll from the OCR
application, added some, and entered some config info into the ini file of ...

I need to create a Styel object for my Excel Workbook that contains a
special color. I only know the html-like string for this color. Like
Style.Interior.Color = "#FFFFF"
Any help is appreciated,

We have customers developing custom applications with a .NET API we have
provided.  Internally, the API uses COM interop to talk to a legacy COM
interface.  The problem is that now we want to upgrade the COM library to the
latest version.  Ideally, we would like to do this ...

I want to use a .NET classlibrary from my VB 6-Application. There are
some tutorials for that, but I want to do some specials.
In some thread I read, it would be possible to place the .net dll in
the apps-dir and I would not have to register the dll on the target

 I have a .NET assembly that is called from a classic ASP website. Can I
still use XCopy deployment for this assembly if it utilizes COM Interop or do
I need to use RegASM.exe? I plan to deploy the assembly in question to the
"bin" directory of my web application.

I have the following situation:
I have one C++-dll that I am not allowed to touch (dll1)
dll1 calls a C++ dll2.
Now, I have to "plug" myself in with a c# dll. I can change dll2.

I need to handle the serial port of my computer for my application but the
problem is that using interoping is too complicated and i have few time to
develop the serial port management. I've heard that there is in the .net
framework version 2.0 a class SerialPort that will let me ...