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Open modem configuration dialog from windows (C#)

is there any opportunity to open the modem dialog from the windows control center by using a c# program? The concrete dialog is: Windows -> Control center -> Telephone and modem -> tab advanced -> select provider -> button configuration The process…
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How to launch COM server in separate dllhost process?

My COM component implemented as surrogated dll. I create one by calling CoCreateInstanceEx(), but it started in shared dllhost.exe process. Is there a way to launch my COM component in separate dllhost process?
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c# Remote ServerManager & COM Surrogate footprint

I have the following method which presents IIS worker requests on a pretty webpage however every time the page is refreshed it increases the memory consumption of dllhost (COM Surrogate) on the target machine until there is no more memory…
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.NET Core: Event handling at calling a third party 32-bit dll from a 64-bit c#

I'm going to migrate a .NET Framework 4.* application to .NET 6. Main application is compiled as 64bit and I need to use a 32bit (.NET 6) dll hosted as out-of-process in Windows system surrogate (dllhost) that interact with x86 third party driver. I…
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Dispose of COM Objects in Powershell Script

I have a scheduled task that runs a Powershell script. This Powershell script sends a HTTP request and searches through the returned HTML. As a result of this script, I am left with a bunch of dllhost processes that don't close. If I understand…
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How do I open an image and then close it automatically in PowerShell?

I want to open an image in Windows Photo Viewer and then close it automatically using PowerShell. How would I achieve this? I tried using the Start-Process cmdlet to open an image with the default application and have it return the associated…
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How to access dll server object remotely without modifying registry on remote computer?

I have a dll server that I want to be able to call remotely. Everything works fine when I use Activator.CreateInstance on the local machine. Is there a parameter I can pass into Activator.CreateInstance to avoid modifying the registry on remote…
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DllHost.exe memory leak when getting PrintTicket

I have a x86 application working on windows10 (64 bit environment). One pf the app's features is to generate a lot of reports, so there is a lot of printing involved. However, I noticed that every time I try to use call DefaultPrintTicket on the…
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How to kill a Shell executed process in c#

I want to display a tiff file using shell execute. I am assuming the default app is the photoviewer. My Problem is that when i want to kill the process with photoviewer.Kill() i get an System.InvalidOperationException. When setting a breakpoint…
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COM exception on "custom component" - how to identify DLL?

We have a large legacy VB app made up of a number of DLLs (a couple of dozen or so), all installed into a single COM+ Server Application. Every now and then, something happens that causes dllhost.exe to keel over (and automatically restart), leaving…
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Could not find endpoint element in .Config File

Good day to all, We've encountered some configuration problem while retrieving an end point from configuration file at creating a ChannelFactory object. Could not find endpoint element with name 'no matter service' and contract 'no matter…
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