How do I get the ocx to show up in the toolbox when using the AxImp.exe?

I've created a shell extension that implements IDropTarget. The drag
and drop calls get marshalled to my implementation perfectly, but I'm
stuck with a very odd problem. Whenever I try to change the pdwEffect
parameter, Explorer goes nuts.

In a c# client I have the following:
double [] data = {1.0,2.0,3.0,4.0};
I have an OCX wriiten in c++ using dev studio 6.0.
Can I pass the array to the OCX? How would you do this?

I have a simple Dual interfaced COM class, written using C#. It does some
things ASP cannot do, that is, formatting datetimes to GMT times and back.
But after a few hours, the site returns a COM exception 0x8007002 (not
found) at CreateObject("my.progid") it means, file not found.

When adding any ocx(SomeComponent) in tool box,
can AxSomeComponent object be casted to SomeComponent?
If can, how do that?
Please help.

I have an object-oriented hierarchy of classes that I want to expose via COM
in a VB.NET 2005 project.  It all works fine except for this:
The client program that uses the COM object can't see the public properties
and methods of the base classes from which the COM classes are ...

After upgrading from Outlook 2000 to the 2003 object model, some of my
Outlook automation code no longer functions.
For example, in 2000, I used to be able to loop through a list of .Items
in a folder and refer to each as .Item(n)

I'm new to making Automation Add-ins for Excel so this may be
trivial...
I'm trying to create an Excel offset function (using Automation) that
takes

From VB (.net 2003), how do I call into a winapi dll in a different
directory,
1. without changing current dir
2. without adding the dll's dir to the path environment variable

I am trying to use the VEO camera api to take a snapshot.
The call to the method goes OK and I get a result indicating that the call
was ok.
However the dll is supposed to write a file with the picture and there is no

I am searching for how to get list of exported functions from unmanaged
dll. Is it possible to do this (by P/Invoke)?
Dmitry.

I am developing a C# COM+ component that derives from IFoo.  What do I need
to do so that a client can QueryInterface(IFoo, ...) successfully on the
server C# object?
I believe I need to specify some sort of COM attribute.  Thanks.

I have a web service proxy developed in .NET 1.1.  It is used by traditional
ASP, and I have some test projects that use it in other COM environments.
We are migrating to VS 2005 / .NET 2.0, so I installed VS 2005 (which
installed .NET 2.0).

I need to allow the user to manipulate WAV files : play, (fast)forward,
(fast)(reverse,etc. Actually, I've put the Windows Media Player as an OCX on
a form through a RCW. It allows for playing, stopping and fast forward, but
some buttons ( i.e. functions) are disabled (i.e. (fast) ...

I am interoping WINSPOOL, and retrieving LEVEL 2 info for each printer
using GetPrinter. On two W2K computers it correctly returns the number
of jobs waiting in the queue for the paused printer, and the paused
status. On two W2003 computers, however, it always shows ZERO JOBS