Using ActiveX control host from a "normal" DLL

From:
"Otto" <OttoVonRix@iname.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.atl
Date:
26 Jun 2006 09:02:44 -0700
Message-ID:
<1151337764.016842.326740@b68g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
Hi All,

I'm trying to use the ActiveX control host in Atl 7.1 to host an MSHTML
control. Using dynamic linking to atl71.dll everything seems to be
working fine.

However, when I try to statically link to ATL things start to go wrong,
initially this was because I had no CAtlModule object in my dll.

So I added one, like this:
===
class CAtlMinimalModule : public ATL::CAtlModule
{
public:
    CAtlMinimalModule()
    {
        m_libid = MyDummyID;

    }
    virtual HRESULT AddCommonRGSReplacements(IRegistrarBase*
/*pRegistrar*/) { return S_OK; }
};

CAtlMinimalModule g_MyModule;
===

Now everything seems to be working pretty much OK. However, when the
AxHost gets any IDispatch::Invoke calls in, the IDispatchImpl in
CAxHostWindow tries to load the type library from My DLL - which
doesn't exist. This means that none of the Ambient properties can be
set.

What do I have to do to get the IDispatch implementation of
CAxHostWindow to start working? I'm guessing I have to shove the tlb
into my resources somehow? Any clues?

Thanks in advance for your help!

Otto

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