Show form from console app

[Lars von Wedel]

Hello,

I have developed a COM component (using interop) which is hosted by a
console application (no message loop).

Within a call to the component I want to display a form. However, the
application gets stuck in the call to form.Show(): no form is shown and
the call never returns.

Any ideas? What else could I try?

Lars

[Bob Powell [MVP]]

Use Application.Run(new myForm()) This starts the message loop for the
application and shows the form.

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"Lars von Wedel" <vo******@lfpt.rwth-aachen.de> wrote in message
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Hello,

I have developed a COM component (using interop) which is hosted by a
console application (no message loop).

Within a call to the component I want to display a form. However, the
application gets stuck in the call to form.Show(): no form is shown and
the call never returns.

Any ideas? What else could I try?

Lars

[Lars von Wedel]

Hello,

Use Application.Run(new myForm()) This starts the message loop for the
application and shows the form.

I have no access to the source code of the console application. The console
app just calls a method of my COM component and I currently do a
form.ShowDialog().

Do you suggest to perform Application.Run within the plugin component?

Lars

[Bob Powell [MVP]]

Hmm, I see. Maybe you should create a Windows Form that hosts this COM
component.

Add the component as a reference, you'll get an interop asssembly generated.
Drag the control onto your form and set it to dock-fill or limit the form
size to the size of the control then do application.Run(....) on the form
you created.
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C#, System.Drawing

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"Lars von Wedel" <vo******@lfpt.rwth-aachen.de> wrote in message
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Hello,

Use Application.Run(new myForm()) This starts the message loop for the
application and shows the form.
I have no access to the source code of the console application. The

console app just calls a method of my COM component and I currently do a
form.ShowDialog().

Do you suggest to perform Application.Run within the plugin component?

Lars