thanks, Ok, I knew this already actually, but I was hoping I could register an assembly from within dot net, like with the RegistrationServices class? Are you saying that I need to include regasm.exe in my installer for the application when it's deployed? It's a shame, tha seems kind of hackish.. "Outside of a dog, a book is Man’s best friend. And inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read." -Groucho Marx

Tathan thanks for your response, I am using remoting to communicate between my BHO and a C# application. The BHO's are loaded by each instance of Internet Explorer, each seperate from one another, and relay information to the application. The nature of a BHO is that it runs in the same process as the IE instance, and therefore isn't in the same CLR as the application (each BHO is in it's own CLR instance). I looked at the ServiceController class, but it seems to be for the purposes of starting and stoppig a windows service. I don't have any services- it's all apps (well and BHO's). (Also btw, a service could be running but have it's remoting server turned off...) Am I missing something? thanks bog "Outside of a dog, a book is Man’s best friend. And inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read." -Groucho Marx

Well, thanks but that won't do. I have verizon, for examle, and Verizon doesn't let you send email where the From address is anything besides the email address verizon gives you. If you want to send email From any other address you have to use a different SMTP server. Also where could I find out what the user's ISP's SMTP server is? Like if they don't have Outlook installed, or it's not set up (wrong or missing SMTP for example). thanks anyway for your response. "Outside of a dog, a book is Man’s best friend. And inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read." -Groucho Marx

Also SYstem.AppDomain.GetCurrentThreadID I'm not an expert yet, but I play one at work. Yeah and here too.

If you want two way communication where each app can talk to the other one, you need to start remoting servers on both applications, and whenever you want to talk to the other app from the current app, make a remoting client connection to the server (that's all). The examples you see use only 2 applications (but 3 or even 4 VS.NET projects for the shared class library and the interface library) Nish Extending MFC Applications with the .NET Framework [NW] (My book with Tom) Summer Love and Some more Cricket [NW] (My first novel) Shog's review of SLASMC [NW] Come with me if you want to live

It does, and I haven't had much success doing so. You need to look into the IInternetProtocol interface and its related interface. You basically have to recreate a lot of that functionality in .NET. By the time you're done, you may as well have done it in C++ because of the amount of work. I was working on a library for it (abstract class and stuff like that), but there's a lot of hang-ups because interface methods don't always interop using 1-to-1 parameter mapping. For instance, the IClassFactory.CreateInstance method is only supposed to take 2 methods (while the return type is still void) instead of 3. Just weird stuff like that. If you want, you could create forward declarations of these in an IDL file, compile the IDL file using the MIDL compiler, then generate an interop assembly using tlbimp.exe. It works to generate the interfaces, structs, and enums, but it's very messy and doesn't always provide what you need. For instance, it always creates methods that return void, when some of those protocol methods must return an HRESULT (int or uint is good in .NET) in order to work correctly, since different return values tell the client to do different things. This becomes a big problem when generating the interop assembly automatically. -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.21 GCS/G/MU d- s: a- C++++ UL@ P++(+++) L+(--) E--- W+++ N++ o+ K? w++++ O- M(+) V? PS-- PE Y++ PGP++ t++@ 5 X+++ R+@ tv+ b(-)>b++ DI++++ D+ G e++>+++ h---* r+++ y+++ -----END GEEK CODE BLOCK-----

nevermind. :-O "Outside of a dog, a book is Man’s best friend. And inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read." -Groucho Marx

Thanks, it turns out that the worker thread is not my problem after all. My problem is much deeper and more anoying. So much so that I'll make a whole new post about it. thanks, "Outside of a dog, a book is Man’s best friend. And inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read." -Groucho Marx

Well like I say, I tried making a simple function that just returns an int, in the same dll, and calling that from dot net and it worked fine. Hey can you tell me if I'm assigning the LPWSTR properly? Do I have to do like memory alloc or something, or make a char array? The compiler didn't throw any errors.. thanks "Outside of a dog, a book is Man’s best friend. And inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read." -Groucho Marx

just a test "Outside of a dog, a book is Man’s best friend. And inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read." -Groucho Marx

The best protection I have seen was for Virtual TurnTables. If you tried to debug the exe, it would simply shutdown your system. But even that wont stop the crackers. leppie::AllocCPArticle(Generic DFA State Machine for .NET);

the dotfuscator shipped with 2003 is the "community edition" of the dotfuscator and i would GUESS that the same rules apply if you get it from vs.net2003 or from their site. also the community edition is not very good , it does merely change method/prop names , nothing else... we use the full version which has workflow obfuscation , break ildasm , string encryption and shite , works lovely.. //Roger

Bog, I got to the same point that you did. I have IDocHostUIHandler implemented as well as ICustomDoc and my IPageClickHandler interface. I am also getting the 'not an instance of an object' error from my javascript. I pulled my test page into VS7 and it does not expose a window.external method within the window object. Did you figure out how to bind the javascript to the external interface? King Rufus seems to have fallen off the face of the earth and is not responding. MJ _____________________________________________ The world is a dangerous place. Not because of those that do evil,     but because of those who look on and do nothing.

Not that I know of. You can iterate backwards through the document and build /html/body/table/tr/td but to get the index, you'd have to iterate through the children at the same level, and try to figure out which was yours. Christian NO MATTER HOW MUCH BIG IS THE WORD SIZE ,THE DATA MUCT BE TRANSPORTED INTO THE CPU. - Vinod Sharma Anonymous wrote: OK. I read a c++ book. Or...a bit of it anyway. I'm sick of that evil looking console window. I think you are a good candidate for Visual Basic. - Nemanja Trifunovic

OK. Dissapointing, but good to know. coming from you i believe it, thanks, "Outside of a dog, a book is Man’s best friend. And inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read." -Groucho Marx