I am trying to add a button to one of the existing tool bars in any windows explorer instance. After much research i figured out that BHO (browser helper objects) are the best way to hook to ...

I m finding leaked heap blocks by using the following command in WinDbg !heap –l With each leaked heap block I get, I m running to following to get the stack trace. !heap -p -a leakedheapblock The ...

I m new to COM. What exactly is the advantage of replacing: L"String" with CComBSTR(L"String") I can see a changelist in the COM part of my .NET application where all strings are replaced in this ...

ATL provides a bunch of macros for creating so-called COM maps - chains of rules of how the QueryInterface() call behaves on a given object. The map begins with BEGIN_COM_MAP and ends with END_COM_MAP....

I am trying to develop an IThumbnailProvider for use in Windows 7. Since this particular thumbnail would also be dependant on some other files in the same directory, I need to use something other than ...

What s the best way to get a chunk of memory (i.e. void*) from a COM server to C#? We have been using an IStream (using CreateStreamOnHGlobal) and passing that back, which worked. However when we ...

I m trying to roll my own implementation of IShellBrowser because I need to have a more full-featured File Open and Save As dialog than Windows allows that is compatible with XP (and ideally with ...

folks can you provide me the tutorial link or .pdf for learning basic COM?. i do google it.. still i recommend answers of stackoverflow so please pass me.. Thanks