COM name given CLSID

[sjc]

Given a CLSID, I'd like to get the version independent ProgID. For example, given a CLSID of:

{0006F03A-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}

I'd like to get back "Outlook.Application". This might boil down to the "VersionIndependentProgID" registry key under the given CLSID. If this is correct, are there any COM methods that would return this value? I'd rather not query the registry for this information because that sounds like a hack. Thanks.

[RussG1]

I have never used it but ProgIDFromCLSID sounds like it does what you want.

[sjc]

I just found that now while searching the help, but I'm not sure if it returns the version independent value or not. I'll have to test that.

[kirants]

Darn !! Was trying to look for some CoGet...blahblah... !!

[sjc]

yeah, the ProgIDFromCLSID returns the versioned prog id. aside from either string parsing, or doing direct registry access, i dont' know.