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newbie: confused about interop Messages   Related Types This message was discovered on microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.interop. Post a new message to this list... Andy Fish Hi, I am just trying to find my way in interop and I just need a pointer as to what I should be doing. Reading the documentation tells me I need to use "tlbimp" to create an interop DLL. However, when I do "add reference" and select the COM tab, I can something fom the list (in this instance, "Microsoft Word 11 Object Library"), and I can just use the com object straight away. Am I using com interop by doing this? Is it running tlbimp automatically for me? Also I have heard about Primary Interop Assemblies but I don't see how they fit into the picture. As a final question, if there are various different ways of accessing word from a .net application, which is the preferred one many thanks Andy Reply to this message...        Thomas Fisher > Is it running tlbimp automatically for me? Yes. Reply to this message...        Andy Fish "Thomas Fisher" <Click here to reveal e-mail address> wrote in message news:Click here to reveal e-mail address... [Original message clipped] thanks for the reply, but I'm still confused. I have found this blog entry: http://blogs.msdn.com/eric_carter/archive/2004/08/18/216838.aspx which seems to state that when I select "Microsoft Word 11 Object Library" from the list of com objects, I am actually selecting the PIA I presume I would normally select a PIA from the ".Net" tab of the references dialog (since it is already a .net assembly) so maybe there is some extra magic going on behind the scenes. If I look in the '.Net' tab there is an item called 'office' but there isn't one called 'word' Reply to this message...        Lars-Erik Aabech See the last part of this doc. for info on the assemblies shown in the "Add references" dialog http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vbcon/html/vbtskAddingRemovingReferences.asp If you'd like to dive into possible explanations for your other question, I suggest starting here ;) http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnoxpta/html/odc_oxppias.asp HTH, Lars-Erik "Andy Fish" <Click here to reveal e-mail address> wrote in message news:%Click here to reveal e-mail address... [Original message clipped] Reply to this message...     Ad MBR BootFX Best-of-breed application framework for .NET projects, developed by Matthew Baxter-Reynolds and MBR IT

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