robgruen's WebLog

Well, it's 10 to 1 AM here and I just got back from a 5k run. It's good to run late at night, fewer cars, cooler temp, less polution, etc (Yes, I'm blatantly ignoring all the negatives). The road runner here has been out since the mid-afternoon and a Read More...

Q: Why can’t we declare arrays with the WithEvents keyword? I’ve read the MSDN documentation on WithEvents but it doesn’t explain why this is the case. doc excerpt Part Description WithEvents Optional. Keyword specifying that varname is an object variable Read More...

DLLHost.exe can be used as a surrogate host for COM servers that are exposed via DCOM/COM+. On XP SP2 the situation may arise that you need to allow your surrogate hosted DCOM app to be accessible from outside of the personal firewall. Typically you would Read More...

The add-in has been out there for a while so I figured I’d check up on it. Looks like there are some outstanding issues. I’ve fixed the following items: · Split code window scrolling now works · Sometimes the host application would crash when unloading Read More...

When you use an ActiveX control in a .NET applicaton you need to generate run-time callable wrappers (RCW) for the ActiveX object. You can do this manually by using tlbimp.exe and aximp.exe. VS.NET will do this automatically for you if you add a COM object Read More...