Introduction

This article is part of a series of articles that I am writing to illustrate the use of EMC Centera SDK and the .NET wrapper being developed as open source project to store “fixed content” on the EMC Centera storage appliance.

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» 50 Ways to Kill Excel

by Scott Rutherford | Published 06/14/2006 | | Rating:

For anyone using Excel automation in .NET or ASP.NET applications, you'll find several answers to the age old question haunting many newsgroups, blogs and forums: "How do I kill Excel?". After outlining how to configure and start an Office app within your .NET desktop or ASP.NET application, this article shows you how to properly dismantle and close the specific instance of Excel that you had started. For the interested student this article will explore several important Windows concepts that apply well beyond the usage of Excel: including COM interop/config./management, the .NET Process class, and how to use “PInvoke” to call Windows API methods not implemented in the .NET Frameworks. [read article...]

» Achieving Backward Compatibility with .NET Interop: Excel as Case Study

by Scott Rutherford | Published 07/23/2005 | | Rating:

There is one way to make explicit reference to a particular version of an ActiveX COM component for .NET Interop. The example used here is to make automation of Microsoft Excel backward compatible. Visual Studio will not allow you to reference older versions if Excel 2003 is already installed on your machine--so your program will not work once deployed to other machines that may have prior versions. This article includes a method for building your own Interop DLL for deployment using a command line tool from the .NET SDK. [read article...]

» Using C# to Create Distribution Lists

by Muthukumar V | Published 05/10/2005 | | Rating:

This article sets out to explain how to access the exchange domain and create a distribution list programmatically using C# and Active Directory . A sample program is used which combines both CDO and ADSI for creating distribution list with C#. This can easily be extended to creating mailboxes also.

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» Adding Spelling and Grammar Checking Functions into VB.NET Applications

by David Wasserman | Published 05/24/2003 | | Rating:

Many applications can be enhanced by including spelling and grammar checking capabilities. Users will greatly appreciate these features and in addition, applications will appear more professional as they mimic popular programs like MS Word. This article will demonstrate how to add these functions to a Visual Basic.NET Windows Form project [read article...]

» Expose MSN Messenger Events Using C#

by James Jenkins | Published 07/24/2002 | | Rating:

Tutorial on how to use the MSN Messenger API in C#. This includes a fix for exposing the events of Messenger so that developers can have full function of the API as in COM based development environments. The article keeps it quite simple and shows how a developer could receive email alerts and chat session text. [read article...]

» .NET Interoperability - Calling a .NET Component from a COM Component

by Ashish Jaiman | Published 03/28/2002 | | Rating:

This article walks through the details of how to call Microsoft .NET servers from COM clients, helps you understand the concept of COM callable wrappers, create a .NET server that can be called from VB 6.0, use the sn, regasm, and gacutil utilities, write VB 6.0 code that uses a .NET class [read article...]

» .NET Interoperability - Calling COM Components from .NET

by Ashish Jaiman | Published 03/23/2002 | | Unrated

In this article you'll learn the details of calling COM servers from .NET clients, understand the concept of Runtime-Callable Wrappers, use TLBIMP to create Assembly from COM component, reference COM component directly from VB.NET code [read article...]

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