CFCOM (ActiveX/COM Interop)

[Rob Blij]

Anyone know of any other products that can wrap an ActiveX control. Im
looking to specifically wrap the Merge and Snapshot ActiveX controls.

So far all I have found is CFCOM but it is pretty expensive...

As a side not has anyone managed to use the Merge control from the compact
framework?

Thanks,
Rob

 

[Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]]

It's "expensive" because it's complete and, frankly, it doesn't seem so
expensive to me ($8 or less per device).

Don't forget that you can't just copy an ActiveX control from the desktop to
a Windows CE device and have it do anything; it has to be compiled
specifically for Windows CE.

What, exactly, are you trying to achieve? Maybe you don't need this at
all...

Paul T.

 

[Rob Blij]

I am wanting to use dynamic snapshots for sql ce merge replication for
applying my initial snapshot. The current .NET SQL CE classes dont offer
this functionality as far as I am aware. There is no way we can run the
snapshot agent to create a dynamic snapshot except for using webservices as
well (although this isnt my hassle). I was hoping that wrapping the
unmanaged replication object and having a look, it might offer this
functionality ie properties such as DynamicSnapShotLocation etc. I know
that the Microsoft ActiveX Merge & Snapshot Controls ver. 8.0 offer this
functionily but as you say they need to be compiled for the device...

Am I on the wrong track here?

Thanks
Rob