DumpCOM Sample

Demonstrates ComDiag.cs usage. ComDiag provides services to investigate certain COM object at runtime. Idea was taken from OLE/COM Object Viewer tool and Andrew Nosenko's unmanaged DumpQIQS C++ tool dumping registered interfaces/services supported by certain COM object. Learning .NET interop, I created managed version of this tool.

ComDiag exposes two useful functions: DumpInterfaces and DumpServices. DumpInterfaces accepts raw pointer to IUnknown interface and outputs other interfaces supported by this object:


 object obj = new Object();
 IntPtr pUnk = Marshal.GetIUnknownForObject(obj);
 ComDiag.DumpInterfaces(pUnk);
 Marshal.Release(pUnk);

This outputs:


 Dump interfaces for IUnknown 0x07290004
 --
 {00000000-0000-0000-C000-000000000046} : [0x07290004] IUnknown
 {00000003-0000-0000-C000-000000000046} : [0x0019EACC] IMarshal
 {00020400-0000-0000-C000-000000000046} : [0x07290004] IDispatch
 {65074F7F-63C0-304E-AF0A-D51741CB4A8D} : [0x07290004] _Object
 {B196B283-BAB4-101A-B69C-00AA00341D07} : [0x0019EAC8] IProvideClassInfo
 {B196B284-BAB4-101A-B69C-00AA00341D07} : [0x0019EADC] IConnectionPointContainer
 {C3FCC19E-A970-11D2-8B5A-00A0C9B7C9C4} : [0x0019EAD8] IManagedObject
 {DF0B3D60-548F-101B-8E65-08002B2BD119} : [0x0019EAD0] ISupportErrorInfo
 {DF0B3D60-548F-101B-8E65-08002B2BD119} : [0x0019EAD0] PSSupportErrorInfo

DumpServices outputs services exposed by COM object via IServiceProvider interface. It's often useful in WebBrowser development:


 WebBrowserClass wb = new WebBrowserClass();
 IntPtr pUnk2 = Marshal.GetIUnknownForObject(wb);
 ComDiag.DumpServices(pUnk2);
 Marshal.Release(pUnk2);

And output:


 Dump Services for IUnknown 0x00175CD0
 --
 {332C4427-26CB-11D0-B483-00C04FD90119} : [0x00175FAC] IHTMLWindow2
 {79EAC9C5-BAF9-11CE-8C82-00AA004BA90B} : [0x00175CD0] IHlinkFrame
 --

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dumpcom.zip.


Revision:1, Last Modified: 06/27/03, by Vadim Melnik. Visit my Homepage.