How to get an handle on an out-of-process COM component ?

[Oriane]

Hi there,

I get a reference on a out-of-process COM (exe) component. The generated
interop dll displays the methods but no constructor is available. So how can
I have an handle on the running component ?

Best regards

 

[Alvin Bruney [ASP.NET MVP]]

No difference, make sure your assembly is COM visible and that it has a
public parameterless constructor. With that, you simply new an object on it,
you don't need to call the constructor explicitly in most cases.

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Alvin Bruney [MVP ASP.NET]

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[Oriane]

Hi Alvin,
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No difference, make sure your assembly is COM visible and that it has a
public parameterless constructor. With that, you simply new an object on
it, you don't need to call the constructor explicitly in most cases.

I don't really understand your answer. Which assembly do you talk about ? I
wrote that the Visual Studio 2008 generated assembly has no constructor
(public, private or parameterless...). So the New simply doesn't compile.

Best regards

 

[Oriane]

Ok let's rephrase this: the *class* I want to instantiate has no constructor
(of course I don't need an "assembly constuctor" !).

 

[Oriane]

With Reflector, I can see an internal parameterless constructor.

 

[Oriane]

I think you think I want to expose a .Net assembly as a COM component. What
I want is the exact contrary: I have a COM component and I want to reference
it inside a .net project.

So I have add the COM exe component as a reference on my .net project with
Visual Studio 2008, which produced an interop dll assembly (with tlbimp.exe)
.. I want then to instantiate a .net class inside this assembly, but the only
constructor is internal. So I'm stuck...

 

[Oriane]

Finally (and I apologize for these many answers !!!!) I think that the
problem is not on my side. A colleague of mine has made the COM component in
VB 6. How can he change its code to make the classes inside its component
"public" so that "tlbimp.exe" can expose a public non-internal constructor ?

Best regards and many thanks

 

[Alvin Bruney [ASP.NET MVP]]

You can't change the code otherwise you would have recompile the dll. If you
add a reference to VB6.dll for instance. In your c# project, add a using
statement > using vb6.dll; In the body of your code do something like
VB6.SomeClass sc = new VB6.SomeClass();
sc.useSomeMethod();

That should work for you.

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Alvin Bruney [MVP ASP.NET]

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