You're right you do need a P/S DLL.... but you mention a typelib, so COM is
probably using the universal marshaller (OleAut32.dll) as the P/S.

This is a bit slower than custom P/S marshalling. It is more generic (i.e.
more languages support it). It is not as rich in it's expressiveness and
types that it can support.

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Phil Reynolds
Ridgeway Systems and Software
Tel: +44 118 938 1211
Fax: +44 118 935 4444
mailto:preynoldsridgewaysystems.com
http://www.ridgewaysystems.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Wong [mailto:dw_vecommHOTMAIL.COM]
> Sent: 16 January 2002 13:52
> To: DCOMDISCUSS.MICROSOFT.COM
> Subject: [DCOM] Puzzling... Exe Server not needing Proxy/Stud???
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm fairly new to COM, and I was wondering what's going on with my COM
> Server/Client.
>
> I've built an out of process COM server. Multiuse and
> multithreaded. Plain
> old Exe (as oppose to NT Service) Used the wizard to build
> the server, and
> added one COM object, with 3 interfaces. Compiles, runs
> fine... no... I
> never did a nmake, or regsvr32 on the ps.dll file. My client
> imports the tlb
> and does the usual coinitialize and createinstance on the
> smart pointer.
>
> but my client can still connect. I thought all Out of Process servers
> needed a proxy/stub to work. I can access my COM object all
> without the
> ps.dll
>
> Could someone out there tell me what's going on? is the out of process
> server running the marshalling code within it?
>
> also, why does the registry point to my exe? and not to a dll
> of some sort?
>
> Please explain to this confused COM novice.
>
>
> Daniel Wong
> Application Engineer
> VeCommerce Pty. Ltd.
> mailto:dw_vecommhotmail.com
>
>
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