Re: Launching ActiveX applications from .Net

COM wrappers are a pain IMHO. When they work they're fine but when anything
goes wrong it's usually not an easy fix (I've got more than a few horror
stories). Unfortunately they are sometimes necessary.

-Matt McDonald

On 1/31/07, Simon Cansick <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Thanks for your feedback.
>
> Shawn - There is some .Net code that I wish to execute before the
> activex exe is called.  I'm trying to wrapper the legacy apps with a
> swanky new centralised security\authorisation\settings entry point.
>
> Possibly I'm looking at this the wrong way, I simply need to:
> Run some .Net code
> Launch an ActiveX exe (which will be registered on the fly) from this
> code
> Not have anything else running, except the the launched process.
>
> Matt - Your idea of starting the process using
> System.Diagnostics.Process is interesting, I'd need to change to passing
> in command line parameters, instead of methods, but this is possible, so
> I'm going to have a look at that.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Simon
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Discussion relating to the specifics of the C# and Managed C++
> languages [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Shawn
> Wildermuth
> Sent: 31 January 2007 16:37
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [DOTNET-CX] Launching ActiveX applications from .Net
>
> Can't you just run the ActiveX.EXE?  Why the console project?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Shawn Wildermuth
> Wildermuth Consulting Services, LLC
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> Microsoft MVP (C#), MCSD.NET, Author and Speaker
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Discussion relating to the specifics of the C# and Managed C++
> languages [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Simon
> Cansick
> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 8:17 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [DOTNET-CX] Launching ActiveX applications from .Net
>
> 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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