Yes! Yes! I got it! Eureka! :-) I made changes to the .rgs file so that the coclasses are registered with HKCU. HKCU { Software { Classes { ..... } } } Then I rewrote the CComModule.RegisterServer() function to register the type library using RegisterTypeLibForUser . That did the trick. Thanks for your help! --- :beer: Hakuna-Matata :beer: It means no worries for the rest of your days... It's our problem free, Philosophy :jig: "I think my response was 'What idiot dreamed this up?'" -- Mary Ann Davidson, Oracle's chief security officer, in typical blunt manner, remembering her reaction to the company's scheme to brand its databases as "unbreakable."

<blockquote class="FQ"><div class="FQA">Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:</div>While I know nothing about VB, this is from the docs of the said function: DoEvents passes control to the operating system. Control is returned after the operating system has finished processing the events in its queue and all keys in the SendKeys queue have been sent. So, the documentation could be wrong.</blockquote> The documentation is not wrong. It states exactly - in other words - my point. <blockquote class="FQ"><div class="FQA">Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:</div>What an ignorant statement! Every thread won't have its own message queue. A thread will have a message queue only if it's an UI thread! </blockquote> I'm sorry: of course you are right. But the problem was: is it a good idea to move the dispatcher to another thread. I think not because 1) there's not performance gain, 2) it complicates the dispatcher, and 3) if he makes a mistake it's reading the wrong message-queue. The initial question was: is the dispatcher written equivalent to the VB DoEvents. In my opinion it is an exact copy. I believe in this situation introducing an extra thread has no meaning, but i'll be pleased to be convinced by you. The statement was not a lack of knowledge from my side but I thought your answer got of the track of the initial question. I'm really sorry if i offended you: that was not my intention. As Pallini pointed out: although threads will not initially have a message-queue, they will if you use any of the message-functions. So my question to you is how would you create a thread with a dispatcher that dispatches the message-queue of another thread? I simply don't get it. If you move the code of the dispatcher to another thread it will dipatch the thread's queue and not the queue of your main program. Rozis

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No good if he's stuck on Windows 2000 though. Kevin

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I would say yes, store the COM-Objects with IUnknown- or your BASE-Interface and query for the disired Interface.

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Are you're looking for what technologies are used inside the framework? If so, there are a lot of different things being used. The underlying "core" of the runtime (the JIT (Just In Time) compiler, global assembly cache (GAC), assembly loader (Fusion), the garbage collection system (GC) and memory management, plus some others) are all written in C/C++. The Base Class Library (BCL) and Common Type System (CTS) are all written using managed code. However, a lot of these classes eventually make platform invoke (P/Invoke) calls into unmanaged code (generally the Win32 APIs). This is true even of the Windows Forms classes. This does mean that there is still some COM that ends up getting used, but I believe that it is not a lot. Scott. —In just two days, tomorrow will be yesterday. [Forum Guidelines] [Articles] [Blog]

Yes its possible on the C++ and C++.Net different is about access level also I think you need to see again about classes and structs so you will be see differences classes and structs.;)

Thanks for the advice. Everyone's recommending the Santro. :) Guess I will be driving the Sunshine car after all.... :-D --- :beer: Hakuna-Matata :beer: It means no worries for the rest of your days... It's our problem free, Philosophy :jig: "I think my response was 'What idiot dreamed this up?'" -- Mary Ann Davidson, Oracle's chief security officer, in typical blunt manner, remembering her reaction to the company's scheme to brand its databases as "unbreakable."

Thanks...:) --- :beer: Hakuna-Matata :beer: It means no worries for the rest of your days... It's our problem free, Philosophy :jig: "I think my response was 'What idiot dreamed this up?'" -- Mary Ann Davidson, Oracle's chief security officer, in typical blunt manner, remembering her reaction to the company's scheme to brand its databases as "unbreakable."

I knew it would hit me... SetLayeredWindowAttributes is the clue you need. For antialiasing, you can have one colour keyed to 0% alpha, another to 50% alpha, etc. Doing a quick search shows plenty of articles here on CP. And its a 2000 onward feature, not a vista one! Iain.

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You haven't mentioned MFC but that's the only place I know of where the concept of an owner window applies. The CWnd::GetOwner() and CWnd::SetOwner() methods are available for working with window ownership. Sorry it took so long to reply! Mark "Posting a VB.NET question in the C++ forum will end in tears." Chris Maunder

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HakunaMatada wrote: CommandBars and CommandBar Objects of the Office API I would go by this. Also you have now mentioned that the individual Element needs to be refreshed, which contrasts recreated. Quick thoughts - - You may have ICategory - ICatgeory having a method which returns IElement collection - Support enumeration of element collection - foreach in VB if required - ICategory will have its own get/set properties to read and change its state or attribute - IElement will have its own get/set properties to read and change its state or attribute S o h a i l K a d i w a l a To Err Is Human; to Debug, Divine

HakunaMatada wrote: What is the difference between a COM dll and a regular dll As DLL's go, there is no difference. Both types have function exports, both types are mapped into the address space of the loading process (and shared across processes). All COM DLL's have a common and specific set of function exports, whereas regular DLL's have exports specific to the DLL module. Phil Harding. myBlog [^] | mySite [^]

None, aside from the naming convention.