Thanks, Tim. Your depth of knowledge is appreciated. I have never understood the "magic" which happens when you make a COM call. Now it all makes sense why 32 and 64 bit COM are mutually incompatible.
On Wed, Dec 8, 2021 at 1:52 PM Tim Roberts <t...@probo.com> wrote: > Vernon D. Cole wrote: > > Most likely, you are running a 64 bit version of Python. > > Due to Windows restrictions, only 32 bit programs can talk to each other. > > That comment demands clarification, because as stated it is quite > misleading. > > The issue here is that a 32-bit application can only load 32-bit DLLs. > Outlook 2016 is a 32-bit application, so when it as a COM client tries > to load an in-process COM server (that is, his add-in), the COM server > DLL must also be 32-bit. > > There are many, many ways that 32-bit and 64-bit programs can talk to > each other. This is a very specific instance. > > -- > Tim Roberts, t...@probo.com > Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. > > _______________________________________________ > python-win32 mailing list > python-win32@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32 >
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