Re: DISP_E_UNKNOWNNAME from GetIDsOfNames - COM Discussion Boards

Re: DISP_E_UNKNOWNNAME from GetIDsOfNames

Richard MacCutchan30-Jan-13 9:35

30-Jan-13 9:35

I have tried this code with a variety of names (supposedly in Excel) but get the same response each time. The MSDN documentation is not very helpful so I'm not sure where to go from here. However, once again I would ask, what problem are you actually trying to solve?

Re: DISP_E_UNKNOWNNAME from GetIDsOfNames

Richard MacCutchan30-Jan-13 9:39

Richard MacCutchan

30-Jan-13 9:39

I just tried again with the name "worksheets" and it worked. So, the code is correct, but the name you are using is not.

Re: DISP_E_UNKNOWNNAME from GetIDsOfNames

ForNow30-Jan-13 9:58

ForNow

30-Jan-13 9:58

Very good you are right on the key is the first paramter

_In_ LPCOLESTR lpszProgID,

The Class id name, Excel is divded into for objects Application, Workbook, Worksheet, and I think Range

In Visual C++ 6.0 there is a OLE/COM viewer which might kind a hint of the names

What I am trying to do,

My boss gave me an assignment to automate the pasting of .txt file onto a Excel Worksheet

I wanted this app to be MFC based as I might need to employ windows services

Hence the main thread CWinApp and associated mainwindow

Thanks again for your help

Re: DISP_E_UNKNOWNNAME from GetIDsOfNames

Richard MacCutchan30-Jan-13 10:10

Richard MacCutchan

30-Jan-13 10:10

A quick search for "Excel C++" finds Accessing Excel Spreadsheets via C++[^].

Found the Answer PLease Read

ForNow30-Jan-13 10:34

ForNow

30-Jan-13 10:34

Richard,

I have to wait for years here to get a better compiler e.g. Visual Studio

However Visual C++ 6.0 has an OLE/COM viewer

So......

From File -> Run the Registry Editor

Then get the progid

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa911706.aspx[^]

Re: DISP_E_UNKNOWNNAME from GetIDsOfNames

ForNow30-Jan-13 14:51

ForNow

30-Jan-13 14:51

I am going to go with the method you pointed out had using AS i GET BY THE
DISP_E_UNKNOWN

Maybe the way excel was installed it ddn't make entries

for HKCR\Typlib for the excel methods properties

Thanks

Re: DISP_E_UNKNOWNNAME from GetIDsOfNames

Richard MacCutchan30-Jan-13 21:51

Richard MacCutchan

30-Jan-13 21:51

You can find (most of?) the names in the Excel object properties[^]; I don't know where you got "OpenText" from.

Re: DISP_E_UNKNOWNNAME from GetIDsOfNames

ForNow1-Feb-13 9:25

ForNow

1-Feb-13 9:25

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.office.interop.excel.workbooks.opentext(d=printer,v=office.11).aspx[^]

When I orignally coded the app and used the #import method I didn't find which led me to use native OLE functions

Then I got stuck with GetIDSofnames

Now I found the api in my excel.h header must of overlooked

thanks

AppCrash Issue related to COM?

Tony Tullemans24-Jan-13 13:17

Tony Tullemans

24-Jan-13 13:17

Greetings!

I have a complex scheduling application written in VB.NET (.NET Framework 4.0) that must use a Data Access Layer consisting of a bunch of C++ DLLs which are in-turn accessed via a COM API library. Of course when the COM API is referenced in the VB.NET application an Interop Assembly is created by Visual Studio.

The problem I am having is that some users are experiencing an APPCRASH (c0000005 exception code) several times per day, but this only occurs if they have the my application open all of the time and they are continually moving between it and other apps (e.g. to MS Word or MS Outlook etc). The APPCRASH occurs as soon as the shift their focus back to my application. I do have a suspicion as to why this may be occurring but my lack of knowledge of the way in which Windows and the .NET Framework manage memory precludes me from being sure.

My suspicion is that when users are using other applications for some time, and Windows requires more memory for those other apps, that it caches my app’s memory to disk. When they return to my app then Windows loads it back into memory, but because I am using COM it is placing the COM related memory into a different address and then when my app attempts to access the COM objects then an Access Violation is occurring and hence the APPCRASH. The faulting module is nearly always the COM API library, but sometimes it is ntdll.dll or clr.dll.

Does this sound like a reasonable hypothesis? And if so, what are my options (if any) for resolving this?

Here are a sample of problem signature traces. Note that they do not all have the same faulting module.

Signature du problème :
Nom d’événement de problème: APPCRASH
Application Name: VM2305.EXE
Application Version: 2.1.0.5
Application Timestamp: 4f44820b
Fault Module Name: a4wcomex.dll
Fault Module Version: 6.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 4cfb1354
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 0001de92
Version du système: 6.0.6002.2.2.0.768.3
Identificateur de paramètres régionaux: 3084

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: VM2305.EXE
Application Version: 2.1.0.9
Application Timestamp: 4fa218fd
Fault Module Name: clr.dll
Fault Module Version: 4.0.30319.261
Fault Module Timestamp: 4ec9f6ff
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 00020ed1
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
Locale ID: 4105
Additional Information 1: 93e2
Additional Information 2: 93e2ab0171a7a6ff1415f9bd2ed3bdf7
Additional Information 3: be03
Additional Information 4: be03af409f1ea363e69fa074d659b668

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: VM2305.EXE
Application Version: 2.1.0.10
Application Timestamp: 4faca846
Fault Module Name: StackHash_0a9e
Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 00000000
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 08000400
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
Locale ID: 3084
Additional Information 1: 0a9e
Additional Information 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
Additional Information 3: 0a9e
Additional Information 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: VM2305.EXE
Application Version: 2.1.0.10
Application Timestamp: 4faca846
Fault Module Name: StackHash_0a9e
Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 00000000
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 41080414
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
Locale ID: 3084
Additional Information 1: 0a9e
Additional Information 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
Additional Information 3: 0a9e
Additional Information 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: VM2305.EXE
Application Version: 2.1.0.16
Application Timestamp: 4fea898a
Fault Module Name: a4wcomex.dll
Fault Module Version: 6.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 4cfb1354
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 0001de92
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
Locale ID: 4105
Additional Information 1: 0a9e
Additional Information 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
Additional Information 3: 0a9e
Additional Information 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789

Re: AppCrash Issue related to COM?

Richard MacCutchan24-Jan-13 23:01

Richard MacCutchan

24-Jan-13 23:01

Tony Tullemans wrote:
Does this sound like a reasonable hypothesis?

No. Why, because if this was the case we would expect to see crashes occurring everywhere and all the time. The only way to identify what is happening is to add some debug code to your application so you capture more information prior to the crashes occurring.

Re: AppCrash Issue related to COM?

Tony Tullemans28-Jan-13 11:28

Tony Tullemans

28-Jan-13 11:28

Thanks for your reply Richard, but the problem is that the AccessViolationException very rarely ever occurs when the application is running within the VS development environment, and furthermore it does not occur on all client computers. The only common factors I have been able to establish is that (1) the user has had the program running for several hours, and (2) the user has just switched back to my application after using some other program.

I have come to this forum in the hope that anyone who may have experienced similar errors may give me some clue as to what to look for. I have literally spent over one hundred hours trying to debug this issue.

Re: AppCrash Issue related to COM?

Richard MacCutchan28-Jan-13 22:32

Richard MacCutchan

28-Jan-13 22:32

You have my sympathy, but unfortunately the only way to track this sort of error is to add logging and debugging code to your application. I worked in technical support for many years and often saw problems such as you describe, and yes, they were extremely difficult to diagnose.

Re: AppCrash Issue related to COM?

Stephen Hewitt27-Jan-13 14:13

Stephen Hewitt

27-Jan-13 14:13

That's not how paging works, addresses will be preserved. Get as many crash dumps as you can from the client and start debugging.

Steve

use webbrowser to visit many webs without a break cause crash

BCN-16321-Jan-13 14:52

BCN-163

21-Jan-13 14:52

as the title, I try to use use webbrowser to visit many webs one by one without a break. the memory grows up little by little, finally my program crash down.

I did a lot research, but got little useful information,(somebody said that memory leaks,but I don't know the reason and how to avoid) so I'm here. my code like this.

C++

try
{
	_variant_t vTmp;
	m_webBrowser.put_Silent(TRUE);
	m_webBrowser.Navigate(strWeb, &vTmp, &vTmp, &vTmp, &vTmp);
}
catch (...)
{}

I will call this every 10 seconds continuously. any tips will be appriciate. thanks for your attention.

How to register a com exe without admin rights?

Hari-Adarapu11-Jan-13 9:37

Hari-Adarapu

11-Jan-13 9:37

Hi,

I have a scenario where i should copy and register a com exe but the problem is i don't have admin rights on that pc.

I know that if it is a com dll then using manifest file i can use it without even registering.

Can someone suggest me if there is a way to register com exe without admin rights or use a unregistered com exe using the manifest file?

Thanks in Advance,
Hari krishna

Re: How to register a com exe without admin rights?

Richard MacCutchan12-Jan-13 0:10

Richard MacCutchan

12-Jan-13 0:10

You can use the CoLoadLibrary()[^] function to load and use an unregistered COM library.

One of these days I'm going to think of a really clever signature.

Re: How to register a com exe without admin rights?

Marius Bancila23-Jan-13 10:37

Marius Bancila

23-Jan-13 10:37

I don't think CoLoadLibrary would work with out-of-proc COM servers.

If you don't have admin rights you could probably use registration-free COM activation[^].

Re: How to register a com exe without admin rights?

Richard MacCutchan23-Jan-13 22:48

Richard MacCutchan

23-Jan-13 22:48

You need to tell this to the questioner, not to me.

Re: How to register a com exe without admin rights?

Marius Bancila24-Jan-13 3:07

Marius Bancila

24-Jan-13 3:07

Sorry, for the misunderstanding, it wasn't for you, it was for the OP.

What type of permissions are needed to resolve Acccess denied for GetDsOfNames to registry entry HKCR\Typelib

ForNow7-Jan-13 11:41

ForNow

7-Jan-13 11:41

Hi,

I am getting a ACCESS_DENIED error message when calling GetDsOfNames Here at work I am not looged on as an adminstrator and have no such rights

The support group here wants to know what type of permission I would need

Not having access to the registry and not being all that of expert I dont know what
answer to give

If am running Windows XP Service Pack 3

If anyone can shed some light would appreciate it

Thanks

Re: What type of permissions are needed to resolve Acccess denied for GetDsOfNames to registry entry HKCR\Typelib

Richard MacCutchan7-Jan-13 22:20

Richard MacCutchan

7-Jan-13 22:20

I think you need administrator rights to access HKCR keys. You can check this by running regedit to see if it will start under your userid.

One of these days I'm going to think of a really clever signature.

Creating .OCX file hangs

ForNow1-Jan-13 17:44

ForNow

1-Jan-13 17:44

Hi,

While building a Natiave OLE/COM program build hangs (does not complete) trying to build a .ocx file

IS there anotherway to build the ocx that isn't so time consuming

Thankx

GetIDsOfNames returning -1

ForNow27-Dec-12 12:28

ForNow

27-Dec-12 12:28

Hi,

I am writting a COM app using the MFC wrappers

There are however certain methods/properties which don't have C/C++ prototypes

so I decided to use native OLE functions

I never got by GetIDsOfNames as
what ever method name I insert I get a -1

I have tried native OLE

C++

CoInitialize(NULL);  //native ole
CLSID clsid;         // initialization
HRESULT hr = CLSIDFromProgID(L"Excel.Application",&clsid);

and the MFC wrappers function

C++

_application::CreateDispath

as this method populates

C++

m_lpDispatch

And whatever method property I use I get -1

Any help appreciated

Re: GetIDsOfNames returning -1

Richard MacCutchan27-Dec-12 21:48

Richard MacCutchan

27-Dec-12 21:48

You need to use the GetLastError function[^] to determine why it fails.

One of these days I'm going to think of a really clever signature.

Mixing native OLE with MFC interface/wrappers

ForNow26-Dec-12 15:30

ForNow

26-Dec-12 15:30

Hi,

I have noticed that certain OLE functions dont have MFC wrappers one in particaular Is OpenText

I have noticed also that it seems that for those functions that dont have MFC wrappers, they use a generic AUTOWRAP function

Which is base on native OLE functions
such as IDispatch

I have intlized OLE using MFC/Framework AfxOleInit

to use native ole functions would I have to do intilzations twice

e.g. CoInitlize(NULL) and then CoCreateInstance

I need MFC as I would like use Windows Service in this program

Please Advise

Thanks

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