Hi

I want to use the object picker dialog from VB.Net to populate a textbox
with a group name. I've never used COM objects before and am having
difficulty working out exactly what I need to do.

I found an article on MSDN, rather encouragingly called "Referencing COM
Objects from Visual Basic .NET" , but found it very unclear and lacking
in detail. I know that I have to import a type library and use the
CoCreateInstance function, but I don't know how to find out where the
type library is or how to use the function properly.

Please help!

Julia

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You're working harder than you need to :)  Com interop from within the
VS.Net environment can be pretty automatic.  If you create a project
reference, choose a com .dll, it will automatically create a COM+ wrapper
that allows you to use the COM object within your project.

To do this:
1.  In the VS.Net IDE right click on the project in the solution explorer
2.  Select "Add reference"
3. Click on the tab labeled "COM"
4.  Scroll down to the COM object you need to use, select it, click o.k.

Now you'll be able to use your .dll throughout the project ;)

Please note:  this adds a reference to the wrapped COM object and you'll
need to use fully qualified name.

For some more information, try the link at

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vbcn...
vaconCOMInteroperability.asp

It has an intro topic, some walkthrough samples.

Chris Innes , Chitra Yalamanchili  - Visual Basic QA

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I'm not sure I understand your question.  Is the "object picker dialog" a
component you created?  Have you tried just adding a COM reference to the
project through the Add Reference dialog (right-click the References node in
the solution explorer)?  This will generate an interop wrapper around the
COM object, and you should be able to call directly into that in your code.

If it is a comonent you want to add to your toolbox, you can do this by
right-clicking the toolbox, selecting "Customize", and browsing to your
component.  The appropriate references and wrapper will be created when you
add an instance to your form.

You can try pasting this link into the Visual Studio .Net help URL:
ms-help://MS.VSCC/MS.MSDNVS/vbcon/html/vbconCOMInteropInVisualBasicVisualC.h
tm.  Hope this helps!

Tania Means
VB QA

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