Why don't you write a "COM-visible" .Net assembly that retrieves the info you want, and expose a COM interface that allows you to retrieve the properties. I think that would be less painful than trying to coerce the .Net class directly (and you can expand the .NET assembly to provide more functionality any time you need to. ".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013

Well, one class is abstract, the other is sealed; contrast that with the ones that ARE working for you.

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Richard Deeming and Dave Kreskowiak, Hey, thanks for the information. Yeah, I should have mentioned either 32-bit or 64-bit versions (my app is a 32-bit version running on WOW64). More than anything, I'm just curious,...

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Also, every .NET application starts as a normal Win32 application and then calls into the .NET runtime library. The rest of the executable 'contents' is usually MIDL (an intermediate language for .NET), which is then interpreted by the .NET runtime.

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