Com Object Question

[Chico Che]

I have a program in Visual Basic that has a running object

Public objSAPGui As Object
Public objGUIApp As Object
Set objSAPGui = GetObject("SAPG UI")
If Not objSAPGui Is Nothing Then
Set objGUIApp = objSAPGui.GetSc riptingEngine
end if

I can't really create the same way in C#, so I imported the
Microsot.Visual Basic .NET object to create the first object.

object sapGUI = Microsoft.Visua lBasic.Interact ion.GetObject(" SAPGUI",
null);
if (sapGUI != null)
{
object sapApp = sapGUI.GetScrip tingEngine();
return true;
}

But can't go on since the GetScriptingEng ine returns this error

'object' does not contain a definition for 'GetScriptingEn gine'

Any ideas on how to bypass the gui checking for this and actually just
proceeding or is there a way to code it different

Thanks in advance

[Gilles Kohl [MVP]]

On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:01:36 -0500, Chico Che <js*****@yahoo. com>
wrote:

>I have a program in Visual Basic that has a running object

Public objSAPGui As Object
Public objGUIApp As Object
Set objSAPGui = GetObject("SAPG UI")
If Not objSAPGui Is Nothing Then
Set objGUIApp = objSAPGui.GetSc riptingEngine
end if

I can't really create the same way in C#, so I imported the
Microsot.Visua lBasic .NET object to create the first object.

object sapGUI = Microsoft.Visua lBasic.Interact ion.GetObject(" SAPGUI",
null);
if (sapGUI != null)
{
object sapApp = sapGUI.GetScrip tingEngine();
return true;
}

But can't go on since the GetScriptingEng ine returns this error

'object' does not contain a definition for 'GetScriptingEn gine'

Any ideas on how to bypass the gui checking for this and actually just
proceeding or is there a way to code it different

As far as I can see, you're using late binding in VB, which is
possible (if memory serves) but cumbersome to do in C#.

The following article explains the differences:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/302902

(the article is about Office but same difference :-)

If there is no special reason you're declaring e.g. objSAPGui as
Object (e.g. version dependency problems), my suggestion would be to
use early binding.

Regards,
Gilles [MVP].