Attaching To Existing 3rd Part ActiveX Application
Oct 11, 2009
We have a client who has asked us to write a GUI that is capable of connecting to an existing, running application. This specific application has quite extensive .NET and ActiveX hooks in it, but it's a third-party application and we do not have access to the source code. The client has specified VB 2008, despite the fact that the target application has perfectly good GUI creation tools itself.
I can successfully start a separate instance of the target application, but that is not what the client wants. The idea is that the user would start this application, open a specific file with it and then start the GUI which would take control.
I have searched a number of locations (including 18 pages so far of this forum) to try to find help on this sort of thing, but the success is slow coming. One code snippet enabled me to find the running process, which may help me to connect. I am also browsing CodeProject to try to wind useful information on this.
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3. the config files
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at System.Runtime.InteropServices.ComTypes.IConnectionPoint.Advise(Object pUn
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oDoc
[code].....
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' conn.ConnectionString = "Data Source=.SQLExpress; INITIAL CATALOG=master; uid=sa; pwd=sa;"
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