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Desaware Articles

COM Articles

We are pleased to present the following free articles by Dan Appleman and members of Desaware's technical staff. Be sure to visit our books page for information on Dan's books and ebooks.

List of articles on COM related topics

• Detect and Automatically Respond to User Input Requests from Running Applications
• Waiting with Threads - Using synchronization objects in background threads with SpyWorks
• DLL HELL: The inside story
• A Thread to Visual Basic
• Desaware's Dynamic Export Technology - A unique approach to a common problem.
• Block Selected Applications from Loading
• How to Find Out When a Shelled Application is Closed Under Win32
• Control Windows Services Across your Network
• VersionStamper and DLL Hell - What's really going on here?
• Reading Office Document Properties From Visual Basic
• Implementing indirect method and property calls on ActiveX/COM objects
• Register Your COM components Programmatically
• Modifying the VB Programmer's Guide PicPrint example to print 8 bit (256 color), 16 bit or 24 bit color.
• Summertime Explorations
• The Object that came in from the Code.
• Monitoring file changes
• Raising Events from Remote DCOM Objects using the NT Service Toolkit
• Create Scalable/Printable controls with VB and SpyWorks

General (not technology specific) articles and white papers:

• SpyWorks Anti-Spyware Technology
• Spyworks is not Spyware
• Impact of Source Code Availability on the Economics of Using Third Party Components
• Persistance of Data - A Technical White Paper

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