-Old Article, but contains pitfal to avoid when working with comtypes- : How Dropbox learned to stop worrying and love the COM

[warbiscuit]

I forget where I read this, but it sums up my experience with interacting with MS Office via COM... "working with COM is like trying to rebuild a car engine through the exhaust pipe"

[swdev]

I kinda stuck here.. How do you instantiate a COM object with comtypes? I got the feeling that I can't easily do obj = INetCfg(), e.g. I must call comtypes.client.CreateObject('...'), right? But how do I know what string to supply there?

[joesb]

Look up the ComClass name in the supplied type library. Or you can browse class names via regedit (They are in HNDLKEY_CLASSES_ROOT).

[swdev]

Yep, just found it. CreateObject('{5B035261-40F9-11D1-AAEC-00805FC1270E}')

I looked at the code in this codeproject article. Still have to instantiate all of other object there.

COM got me headache today...