Com Categories?

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Anybody have an idea how to achieve/use these?


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[Bill Crawley]

Not sure what you mean here, You can put COM components into an MTS Package. Which would be a similar concept to a category.

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HKCR\CLSID\{XXXX-128BIT GUIDS-XXX}\Implemented Categories\

In c++, com understands the concept of categories. The question is, is there any way for vb to plug into that mechanism (maybe plugging into the rot table...).



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Anyone?


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Still no ideas on this one?


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[Mongo]

I've not had need or reason to slice and dice scum or spam via code to the RegDb for COM+, as the MMC catalog manager/com services admin tools have thus far served my needs. But since no one else has yet taken a shot, I'll adds my free two bits (read, if you don't like the suggestions, ask for a full refund)...

ATL comes to mind first. Would the simplest way be to add the extra keys and values with a registry script (.rgs) file generated by the ATL Object Wizard? Maybe that's to C++...

That not seeming reasonable, the articles at http://local.15seconds.com/Issue/010212.htm
and http://local.15seconds.com/Issue/991118.htm might have a few good ideas to help you.

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I see where you're coming from, but this is not com+.

You're right about the .rgs business, but that is the whole issue we're trying to avoid.

We have a bunch of ATL components that under stand categories (i think code runs in the atl component during registration process) and also a bunch of vb components. At the moment we have to install the vb categories by hand (or a script), but when the guid's change etc, it's a pain.

So i suppose the question should be, is there any way to run some code when you regsvr32 or /regserver ?

I doubt it, but you never know.



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