In Microsoft COM technologies, out-of-process refers to COM servers implemented in such a way that they reside outside the process(es) that use them.
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How to use an out-of-process COM server without its tlb file
It is about Window COM component.
Server.exe: an 32bit out-of-process COM server
CLSID_Application: The GUID of a COM object in Server.exe
Client.exe: a 64bit client application which use Server.exe in a registry-free way.
As we know, an exe can't…

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Does COM activation of LocalServer32 EXE from the same user account share an existing process or not?
I have a COM server LocalServer32 EXE started when a client application calls c_com_ptr::CreateInstance (using ATL wrappers.)
On Windows 7, when a second client application running under the same user account also calls c_com_ptr::CreateInstance, a…

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COM out of process server starts multiple instances
How do you force a local COM server to run under a common account (local system would be good)? The RunAs documentation seems like its only for DCOM and doesnt work locally.
The problem i face is that my CoCreateInstance is being called from…

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Does marshaling a marshaled interface give me a marshaller to the proxy or the original interface?
Here is a concrete example:
I create a IWeBrowser2 interface by calling wb.CoCreateInstance(CLSID_InternetExplorer, 0, CLSCTX_SERVER);. This gives me a marshaled interface from my process into whichever of the running iexplore.exe processes happens…

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WorkerConfig for runtime: dotnet-isolated not found
Created a .NET 6.0 Isolated Function (with HTTP Trigger) in Visual Studio 2022. But when running/debug this function locally, get following error:
Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs.Script: WorkerConfig for runtime: dotnet-isolated not found. Value cannot be…

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COM Interop, client not finding interface in Out-of-process COM
I'm using Microsoft's CSExeCOMServer as a base for setting up a Out-of-process COM server, but it's not working properly. The server is 64 bit, and the client is 32 bit.
Here's the sample interface
[Guid(XXCryptService.InterfaceId),…

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Out-of-process loading an ActiveX control from C#
I have a C# app that loads a component (And associated helper functions) from a 32-bit COM (ActiveX) DLL.
This all works beautifully but my processing is pretty memory heavy (Especially when running on multi procesor machines) so I'd like to be able…

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.NET out-of-process COM objects sharing static instances in API calls
It's hard to explain our situaction.
We have a 3-tier application. The engine is a DLL coded in C++, then we have a VB6 ActiveX EXE that access to the engine via API calls, and at the top level we have a Excel Addin (in C# using VSTO framework)…

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HTTP Error 502.5 - ANCM Out-Of-Process Startup Failure
We have two project, one contains Web API built on .net core 2.2.6 and Angular 8 Single Page Application integrated in .net core 2.2.6. We have deployed both on IIS 7, Web API project is working fine but Angular 8 SPA is giving an error "HTTP Error…

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Getting a 32-bit COM client to talk to a out-of-proc 64-bit server using Java/JaCoB
This question indicates that it is possible for a 32-bit COM client to talk to a 64-bit COM server (and vice-versa), provided the server is out-of-process. I'm trying to implement a client using the Java Com Bridge (JaCoB) library to talk to a…

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Out-of-process COM server without a proxy/stub DLL?
I am learning how to implement an out-of-process COM server and came across this Code Project article, Building a LOCAL COM Server and Client: A Step by Step Example.
I can build it, and it runs fine, but where is the proxy/stub DLL? All I can see…

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Registry keys for out-of-process COM server
I'm in the process of implementing my first out-of-process COM server (my first COM server altogether, for that matter). I have followed the steps to write an IDL file, generate the code for the proxy/stub DLL, compile the DLL, and register it.
When…

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Out of process video player on mac (vlcj)
I've been using VLCJ to embed a number of media players in the same window - on Windows and Linux this works fine, because they can be out of process (which they need to be to be stable - in short because of native libraries underneath there's no…

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View Objects in Session of a Running ASP.NET Application
I am trying to move my app to out-of-proc session state and can't find which session object is failing to serialize - the YSOD stack trace is unrevealing.
Is it possible to view the objects, or at least the types of objects, currently stored in…

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UWP in-process background task when app is closed
Does the in-process background task, defined via the OnBackgroundActivated method, run even if the main application is closed or suspended or must I implement an out-of-process background task?
The documentation is not clear on this.
Support your…

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