Friday, January 29, 2010

Microsoft OLE/COM Object Viewer

If you ever need to take a look inside a COM dll then OLEView is the tool for the job. The tool can be downloaded from: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5233b70d-d9b2-4cb5-aeb6-45664be858b6&displaylang=en

Wierdly, the tool needs a dll called iViewer.dll which is not part of the above package. You can get that dll from this installer: http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/f/1/2f15a59b-6cd7-467b-8ff2-f162c3932235/ovi386.exe (dont install it – instead use a tool like 7Zip to peak inside and extract just the iviewer.dll to the current Oleview.dll folder – “C:\Program Files\Resource Kit”)

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