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I am as clueless as you about your problem. Would RegisterActiveObject() work for you? I don't think revoking the ROT entry to yourself i FinalRelease() is a good idea. There's a cyclic reference there. The ROT has a reference to you, and you have a reference to it. Surely, there must be a better time to release yourself...? -- Ich bin Joachim von Hassel, und ich bin Pilot der Bundeswehr. Welle: Erdball - F104-G Starfighter

you can also use MIDL /h file.h to get an IDL file you can use oleview

Some time ago there was a free MAKE source from somewhere like Lattice, the people that produced C compilers (I said it was a while ago). It was more UNIX oriented, although it was source code and #ifdef'd for MS-DOS. Shouldn't take too much conversion. it's at this location[^] as NMAKE.ZIP Steve S

Before you come up with a code documentation standard, you need to decide how you're going to the the documentation out of it. Tools such as DoxyGen and Cocoon http://www.stratasys.com/software/cocoon/[^] have radically different formatting requirements. None are difficult, just different. If you're using .Net there is an XML commenting tool built in. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vsintro7/html/vxconCommentingCode.asp[^]

It seems Microsoft intentionally don't provide IStream on ordinary files, but I don't know why.

If you create the server process, then you have its process's handle. Therefore, create a worker thread that waits on the handle: WaitForSingleObject(...). If you didn't create that process, then you can get the process handle by using my tool: How to get handle to any running process by its name Goodluck, Dudi