Hi Brian, here we go. Call me an beginning interop expert by now (we pulls some fancy strings here), but I did not do any office work for years.
Inline with *** Regards Thomas Tomiczek THONA Consulting Ltd. (Microsoft MVP C#/.NET) -----Original Message----- From: Barrie Green [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Mittwoch, 17. April 2002 10:49 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [DOTNET] com experts please help! hi all, I'm trying to develop an office addin, I have got around problems with the wizard created setup program not working, but I have now hit a bigger problem. Events from office don't work correctly in dotNet land, something to do with sinks not implementing IDispatch, the ms bug report Q309336 explains a way around this by decompiling the interop dll and changing some il. I have been unable to get this to work probably because i'm using office 2000, but even if I could I don't really like back engineering autogenerated code. the problem looks like this at code level: try { // goes bang here _inBox.Items.ItemAdd+= new Outlook.ItemsEvents_ItemAddEventHandler(OnItemAdded); } catch(InvalidCastException ice) { Voice.Speak(ice.ToString(), SpFlags); } My question (finally!) is this: is there a way of getting an IDispatch wrapper around the deletegate and then supplying it to the itemadd thingy in that form ? I suppose I could just write some form of MC++ extension and handle the sinking via atl.... *** ok - I give up, no idea :-) Sorry. *** BUT - IF you know C++, another way to handle this is using C++ nd ATL to catch the event, THEN forwarding it through a managed wrapper. I pretty often go down to managed C++ today for things like this :-) TIA bg You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com. You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.
