I am developing an Excel VBA application on my desktop machine. I have a DatePicker ActiveX control on my spreadsheet. It was working fine. Then, while on travel, I was working on the application...

I am trying to create an ActiveXObject (to use FileSystemObject) but it's only supported in IE. Is there a way I can make it work in Chrome or Firefox? I need to read all the files in a specific gi...

I am trying to figure out a bizarre situation. I have a workbook with many sheets. On one sheet, I have one ActiveX listbox (CTOverview.Listbox1). On a second sheet, I have a total of three listbo...

In C# I can write event handlers as follows: var wdApp = new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Application(); wdApp.DocumentBeforeSave += (Document doc, ref bool saveAsUI, ref bool cancel) => { //d...

I'd like to create a COM object in C#, and use it via IDispatch from JScript. That part is pretty simple. I also want to implement simple callbacks on the COM object, similar to the event exposed ...

I am trying to find a way of compiling the code in VBA on workbook open. I can do this manually by opening the VBA environment, going into Debug and "Compile VBAProject" but was wondering if there ...

So at work I ran into this issue after I installed the most recent Windows 7 updates (including Microsoft Office 2010 updates) - the date up the update was today (Dec 12, 2014). After the u...

In my web page, a JS block like this: var classFactory = new ActiveXObject("X509Enrollment.CX509EnrollmentWebClassFactory"); // Other initialize CertEnroll Objects It works fine in windows7(32b...

i have implemented this script for uploading files with ajax, it works perfect in other browsers except for explorer, i noticed that formData is not supported by IE9 and less, are there any alterna...

In a Javascript program that runs within WSH and creates objects, let's say Scripting.FileSystemObject or any arbitrary COM object, do I need to set the variable to null when I'm finished with it? ...

I have a ASP.NET application that allows users to export their staff's absences each month to Microsoft Excel. The application is currently generating the following exception Exception: Cannot cre...

Here is a simple code: procedure Test; var V: OleVariant; begin V := CreateOleObject('ADOX.Catalog'); try // do something with V... finally V := Unassigned; // do we need this? end; end; ...

I hope both the object invocations are referring to the ActiveXObject. But why are we passing two different parameters to work in IE. 1. Msxml2.XMLHTTP and 2. Microsoft.XMLHTTP Are they both same...

Through COM, one can potentially gain absolute control over a target system. For example: using javascript's ActiveXObject object in IE, one can create certain objects which were designed to have d...