I'm doing some automation via a combination of windows message sending directly to HWNDs and calls to a COM server exposed by the automated application. If there is more than one instance running,...

I want to access partitioned COM+ applications on a remote server. I have tried this: using COMAdmin using System.Runtime.InteropServices; _serverName = myRemoteServer; _partionName = myPartionN...

This has been on my mind for sometime. I can open task manager by pressing Ctrl + Shift + Esc and on the second tab (Processes), I can easily press Alt + S -- Show processes from all users to eleva...

I have created a custom URL protocol handler. http:// mailto:// custom:// I have registered a WinForms application to respond accordingly. This all works great. But I would like to be able to ...

I am developing a COM surrogate object in C, it will be used by my applications to call the UAC elevation dialog for certain actions that require administrative rights. The plan is to make this it ...

I have two COM objects written in C++ and ATL. There are in one library and I know their IIDs and CLIDs. I can't find an example of doing this simple communication between two simple COM objects. ...

I had created a COM+ domain partition then mapped it to a Windows 2008 server machine and imported a COM+ application into it. I tried using the following C# code to activate an object from that s...

I just realised there is a shell: URI, but every search engine seems to think shell: and shell are the same thing. The only thing I've found out is that you can type shell:startup right in explore...

I've found an article on how to elevate a COM object written in C++ by calling CoCreateInstanceAsAdmin. But what I have not been able to find or do, is a way to implement a component of my .NET (c...

How do you create your own custom moniker (or URL Protocol) on Windows systems? Examples: http: mailto: service: