In Microsoft COM technologies, out-of-process refers to COM servers implemented in such a way that they reside outside the process(es) that use them.
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NSSavePanel and NSOpenPanel does not work on macOS 10.15 as its out of process like sandboxed app
On Catalina using NSSavePanel constructor or static object gives error
eclipse +[NSXPCSharedListener endpointForReply:withListenerName:]: an error occurred while attempting to obtain endpoint for listener 'com.apple.view-bridge': Connection…

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Reg-free COM out of process EXE
I have several components (multiple .dlls, one .exe) which I need to use registration free. In my sxs manifest I've listed the dll files as;

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COM Surrogate Server Timeout
I have a Win32/MFC application that depends on two separate STA COM DLL servers that I created many years ago using C++/ATL. These are large DLL servers with multiple interfaces and are also successfully used in other contexts and client programs.…

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What privileges should a process have to activate out-out-process COM server
I have a 3rd-party out-of-process COM server and a client program which is trying to activate it. I've created two ones: on C# and on C++.
When I start my client program (any of them) from VS2010 with Ctrl-F5 (which is started in elevated mode) the…

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.Net Core 2.2 application cannot find appsettings path when using "InProcess" hosting model on few developer machines
.Net Core 2.2 application cannot find appsettings path when using "InProcess" hosting model on one of my systems, it only works when hosting model is changed to "OutOfProcess", is there a reason why the same application requires different…

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How to determine the supported thread model of an out-of-process COM server?
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How to find the threading models supported by a predefined out-of-process (EXE-based) Server:
Using oleview?
Or any other valid methods?
Note:
Attempting to connect to the above described server to receive event notifications

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How to tell if a local server process was launched by COM?
I have an application which supports out-of-process COM automation. Now, I want it to be able to behave differently when it is launched by user and when it is started by COM to serve an automation request. How can I distinguish these cases from…

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linked servers Access Denied error with an out-of-process OLEDB provider
I have an OLEDB for OLAP provider which I am trying to set up a linked server with. For some reason I cannot set the provider to run in-process (by checking the "Allow inprocess" option) as it uses some customized .NET assembly which SQL server…

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What is WinRT remoting?
I'm reading about IPC in Windows Phone 8, and I come across Peter Torr's articles about Using named events to coordinate foreground apps and background agents. In the bottom of his article, he mentioned WinRT remoting as the advanced technique for…

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64bit application + out of process 32bit modal dialog
We work on plugin extension (toolbar) for 3rd party application. New version of application is also 64bit - and here comes the problem. Our plugin is developed under VB6. In 32bit application works all fine.
Manufacturer of an application delivers…

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Vista and out-of-process COM server
I'm having a hell of a time trying to figure out user privilidges and security settings on Vista. The situation is this:
I have a 32 bit C++ application that acts as an out-of-process (==standalone exe) COM server. I have several .Net, FoxPro, X++…

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COM Server: ESP not saved across a function call when calling interface method
I'm in the process of implementing a COM server in an EXE file. To be precise, I'm adding a COM interface to an existing application. with the ultimate goal of automating the application.
The first component and an interface (with a single method so…

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Handling Windows shutdown with out of process ActiveX EXEs
We have an application that uses several out of process COM objects for various tasks.
If the user tells Windows to shut down while our application is running, then it sends all applications (top level windows) a shutdown notification, but the OoP…

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32-bit COM client encounters exception on consecutive calls to 64-bit surrogate-hosted COM object that makes calls to native code
EDIT: Question updated from information gleamed from comments below
Client: 32-bit COM client
Server: 64-bit COM in-process server configured to run out-of-process. Server makes calls to native c++ code
I am trying to run an out-of-process COM…

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WPF Desktop Bridge out-of-process background task cannot access Documents folder
I'm developing a WPF (Desktop Bridge) application that performs some logic on startup and in out-of-process background task. This logic creates and uses a file in the user's Documents folder.
I've created out-of-process BG task in WPF (Desktop…

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