A CLSID is a globally unique identifier that identifies a COM class object.
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Flash ActiveX in X64
I'm trying to move my application from x86 to x64. And most of it seems to work well however, I has a Flash Player ActiveX Control in my application, and the creation of this fails in x64 builds.
CComBSTR…

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MS office Word 2016 upgrade from 2010 resulted in error “error: 80080005 Server execution failed” (CO_E_SERVER_EXEC_FAILURE) .Net web application
.Net C# web application that generates a word document from one of its web page.
In dev server we have recently upgraded the microsoft office version from 2010 to 2016. while initializing word dll running into issues (in one another environment…

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COM : retrieve good CLSID
I have a little problem with the CLSID.
I have a (hooked) function which has in param a REFCLSID.
So I want to print this param.
I did:
LPOLESTR pOleStr;
StringFromCLSID(rclsid,&pOleStr); //rclsid is a REFCLSID type.
ofstream…

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Throwing error on OpenFileDialog.Showdialog in c#.net
I am developing a windows application in XP machine.in my one form i have one text box for showing the selected file with path from openfiledialog box.and the other control is button to call the openfiledialog box.
When I cliked on the button to…

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How to find out Application AppID \ CLSID IN Windows Registry \ DCOM Config
continuing from this thread:
How can I find the GUID for other applications or even excel if the guy from the thread above didn't mention it?
Let's say I missing from dcom (both regular and 32bit version) in server 2012R2DC with office 2010 32Bit…

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Duplicate Powershell Get-Members in C#
PowerShell has the capability to enumerate the Methods and Properties of an object given a CLSID GUID via the Get-Members cmdlet. For example:
$test =…

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How to register multiple shell extension handlers
I'm creating a single project that contains multiple shell extension handlers. For example, there's a class for a context-menu handler, a class for a property-system handler, a class for a drag-and-drop handler, etc.
The part I don't understand is…
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How to access step over Signature Pad ActiveX object in chrome through javascript?
This step over signature pad does not work in Google Chrome, but it works with IE.
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What are the CLSIDs of the legacy (XP-style) file open and file save dialogs?
What are the CLSIDs of the file open and file save dialogs used before Windows Vista?

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How to get CLSID variable name, like MSVC?
When you are debugging a program and you hover over a GUID variable, MSVC retrieves both the variable name (e.g. CLSID_FilterGraph) and the human name (e.g. Filter Graph Object).
It does the second by looking at HKCR\CLSID\GUID - but where does it…

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Compiling a VB6 COM DLL through command line gets a different CLSID each time
Let dllproject.vbp be a DLL VB6 project.
Each time i compile through this Line :
VB6.EXE /MAKE dllproject.vbp /outdir somedir
The compiler produce a dll with another CLSID. Why ?
(EDIT)

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Error : No method available to convert ProgID to CLSID
I am using OPC Labs QuickOPC 5.31 in VB.NET application to read the OPC tags from the Top server. The application and the Top Server are located in different machine. DCOM is configured in both machine.
I have used the ProgID…

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Getting notified about new COM server registration
I'm trying to find a way to identify a newly registered or unregistered (via regsvr32) COM servers, which are added to the registry (CLSID). Is there any callback function I can use?
I don't really want to poll the registry...

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Can a COM Object have a "fake" CLSID?
Example: I have an ActiveX object (.cab file) in my "Downloaded Program Files" folder. Using a program like HiJackThis, I find that the CLSID of that object is:
1D4DB7D2-6EC9-47A3-BD87-1E41684E07BB
I have been told that I can 'google' that CLSID to…

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Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID{} failed
I have two projects in the same computer that use the same dll (InputsSanitizer), the only difference between them is one is in IIS 7 and is a website, and the other one is not in IIS 7 and is a webapplication.
The one in IIS 7 is giving me this…

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