ActiveX help

VB6 is the easiest method I've found to create a COM. It's available for download on MSDN. You could probably do it via Visual Studio as well, perhaps someone could tell you how to do it via that.

With VB6, all you have to do is:

1. Create a new "ActiveX DLL" project
2. Give it a Project Name via Project\Project1 Properties (the default name will be Project1)
3. Rename the default Class Module from "Class1" to your own name (in the "Project - <Project Name>" pane)
4. Stick "Public" on the front of all your outward facing functions/procedures.

To compile it select "File/Make <Project Name>.DLL". Then all you need to do is add some code in the Gadget to register/unregister it, see my earlier post on the subject for the code. VB6 will auto register it under HKLM on the machine you're compile it on.

In your code, initialise the DLL via:

var myLib = new ActiveXObject("<Project Name>.<Class Name>");

Then to call your functions/procedures the syntax will be:

myLib.<myfunction>([<param1>, [<paramN>])

To register/unregister you'll need to find the three keys for the DLL under HKLM and translate them to HKCU, as in my example code in the other post:

HKLM\\Software\\Classes\\CLSID\\<Class GUID>
HKLM\\Software\\Classes\\<Proejct Name>.<Class Name>
HKLM\\Software\\Classes\\TypeLib\<TypeLib GUID>