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COM – Creating a COM Component using C++ – Add Type Library to Visual Basic Application

In our previous article, we have created Type Library “Hello.tlb”. We were facing issues when we tried to add “HelloComponent.dll” as a reference to our Visual Basic test application. Hence we have created “Hello.tlb” Type Library. And we observed that even with “Hello.tlb” Type Library, Visual Basic test application (console based application) is showing error […]

COM – Creating a COM Component using C++ – Generate a Type Library

We have created our COM component using C++ and we have tested our COM component in C++ based client application. We found that our COM component is working fine. Since our component is built on COM, it should work with client applications which developed using other languages like Visual Basic, Java, Visual C++ etc., This is one […]

COM – Creating a COM Component using C++ – Summary of component development

Finally, we have successfully developed our COM component HelloComponent using C++. Let’s summarize how we developed our COM component in this article. Microsoft’s Component Object Model (COM) is a specification to allow to write of reusable components and enables them to communicate with each other. COM depends on interfaces to achieve its goals. One of […]

COM – Creating a COM Component using C++ – IClassFactory implementation

CoCreateInstance depends on IClassFactory to create class instances. We have looked into IClassFactory‘s methods and we have implemented these methods in our previous article. Let’s include IClassFactory‘s implementation into our HelloComponent. We already have HelloComponent‘s declaration in the “HelloComponent.h” file and its implementation in the “HelloComponent.cpp” file. In the same way, we will add the IClassFactory […]

COM – Creating a COM Component using C++ – IClassFactory

In our previous article, we have identified that CoCreateFunction is requesting an instance of IClassFactory. Why CoCreateInstance is requesting an instance of IClassFactory? One of the goals of the COM is to locate the objects easily without worrying about where they are located and where they are housed; whether they are housed in in-process, local, or remote. in-process means, the […]

COM – Creating a COM Component using C++ – Inside CoCreateInstance

As we discussed in our previous articles, COM’s CoCreateInstance function is used to create instances for COM classes. What is happening inside the CoCreateInstance function? When the client program calls CoCreateInstance to create an instance of COM class: It actually internally calls another function CoGetClassObject CoGetClassObject checks the registry entries for CLSID which was passed through […]

COM – Creating a COM Component using C++ – .def file

In the previous article, we created a test application to test our COM component. When we rant our test application, it was displaying a “Class not registered” error message. Before re-looking into our component and test application code; let’s understand in what scenarios this “Class not registered” error message occurred. One scenario is, unable to find the […]

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