Hi all,
Coming back to CG forums after a long time. I am currently refreshing my past dev experience using the interop article at:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/COM/cominterop.aspx
I have D/L the sample code from the article. In first sample in \..\COMClassic directory, there is a ATL COM project called AirlineInformation and it generates AirlineInformation.tlb file. I am running everything on Windows 7 OS / Visual Studio 2008 and earlier on I got an error PRJxxxx which was related to insufficient rights. So I ran VS with admin privileges and got rid of that error. I was able to successfully build the project. However, it does not generate any tlb. I have a tlb that came with the source code download. So I removed the existing tlb from the current location and rebuild the project. Now it generated a tlb. But when I run tlbimp.exe to import the tlb file contents to a dll as metadata to expose it to .NET, some how it does not find it. I migrated the entire VS solution from VS 8 to VS 2008. I also checked the MIDL output directory in the properties for the project and it is ./debug. But the tlb is created only in top level folder with the solution and not in the \debug.
My Questions:
Why do I not get a new tlb in ./debug folder?
Why does tlbimp not recognize the tlb file?
How to run a program like tlbimp as an admin from command prompt if at all that is the problem?
Did the migration of the project that was developed in VC++6 to 2008 need any more fixes?
Thanks,
Bhushan