All user code in Silverlight runs in a sandbox. Hence, for security reasons, there are no APIs to directly open local files from disk. However, there is a OpenFileDialog class which allows a Silverlight app to open files on disk. Human intervention is...

VB, VBA, and VBScript pass arguments by reference by default. A subroutine definition can explicitly override the default by specifying that a parameter should be passed by value. This does raise two issues in the face of late-binding: How are arbitrary...

Oleview has been hanging and taking up all the CPU when I tried to open a typelib on a Vista machine. I saw http://support.microsoft.com/kb/176938 and tried to follow the recommended solution (regsvr32 iviewers.dll), but that did not fix it either. It...

The CLR supports marshalling of objects that support the IReflect interface as IDispatch COM objects. Similarly, IExpando gets marshalled as IDispatchEx . Here is a sample of a managed type called ManagedIDispatch which is used from VBScript and used...