Re: Launching ActiveX applications from .Net

Matt - Just creating a reference to the COM component in Visual Studio 2005, .Net wrappers this object and I interact with it as a 'normal' .Net object.  

After I've created the object, I call a method which displays the GUI.  Here are the two lines of code:

            openItems.starterClass starter = new openItems.starterClass();
            starter.start(tempConnection, "SU");


Thanks,
Simon



-----Original Message-----
From: Discussion relating to the specifics of the C# and Managed C++ languages [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Matthew McDonald
Sent: 31 January 2007 15:29
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [DOTNET-CX] Launching ActiveX applications from .Net

Simon,

Are you using System.Diagnostics.Process or some other method to start the
VB6 applications?

-Matt McDonald


On 1/31/07, Simon Cansick <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Chaps,
>
> I'm working on a project that requires me to launch legacy ActiveX Exe
> (VB6) applications from .Net (I'm using C#)
>
> I've created a console application that successfully launches my 
> ActiveX applications, but these applications are destroyed when that 
> console application terminates.
>
> Well kind of destroyed, the GUI terminates, but the process lingers on 
> according to Task Manager.
>
> So I've been trying to find a way of creating a thread, launching my 
> ActiveX, then destroying the 'parent' thread (I believe this is called 
> an orphaned thread), because I don't want the console app to continue.
> But I've not had much luck.
>
> Has anyone got experience in this area?
>
> Simon James
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