Re: Learning about monikers

From:
"Scott McPhillips [MVP]" <org-dot-mvps-at-scottmcp>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.atl
Date:
Tue, 21 Aug 2007 01:41:56 -0400
Message-ID:
<e6#LCY74HHA.5424@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl>
Wow Senthil! My birthday is tomorrow and you just gave me an excellent
birthday present!

Thank you very much.

"Senthil" <s.senthilvel@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1187669573.376205.320830@57g2000hsv.googlegroups.com...

Hi,
We have been using this code to get the interface pointer to the
running application. Check out if it helps.

GetInterfacePtr(_bstr_t aProviderName, IUnknown** pUnknown )
{

      IRunningObjectTable* spTable;
      HRESULT hr = GetRunningObjectTable( 0, &spTable ); /* Get the
ROT interface pointer */

      if ( SUCCEEDED( hr ) )
      {
              IEnumMonikerPtr pEnumAllMonikersInRot;
              hr = spTable->EnumRunning(&pEnumAllMonikersInRot);

              if ( SUCCEEDED(hr) )
              {
                      _bstr_t bstrtCurName;

                      IMonikerPtr spMoniker = NULL;
                      while ( SUCCEEDED(pEnumAllMonikersInRot-

Next(1, &spMoniker, NULL)) && (NULL != spMoniker) ) {

                              /* Loop thru all the interfaces in the
enumerator looking for our reqd interface */
                              IBindCtxPtr spContext = NULL;
                              hr = CreateBindCtx( 0, &spContext ); /*
Create a bind context */

                              if ( SUCCEEDED(hr) ) {
                                      WCHAR* wsCurName = NULL;
                                      hr = spMoniker-

GetDisplayName( spContext,NULL, &wsCurName ); /* Get the display name

*/
                                      bstrtCurName = wsCurName;
                                       if ( SUCCEEDED(hr) &&
aProviderName == bstrtCurName ) { /* We have got our required
interface pointer */
                                      hr = spTable-

GetObject( spMoniker, pUnknown );

                                      break;
                                }
                              }
                              spMoniker.Release();
                      }
              }
      }

}

Best Regards,
Senthil

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