[OLE #10] Make out of process COM work with OXID based marshal ids

[Bill Medland]

On December 21, 2004 04:25 am, Mike Hearn wrote:
SNIP
>
> Native OLE should still work - is this the REG_EXPAND_SZ issue Bill
> mentioned? What exactly is this issue?

(It was mentioned early on in that IRC hecking discussion a couple of Sundays 
ago, although I met it a few days earlier)

Due to some change after the September version, native msxml registers itself 
using REG_EXPAND_SZ entries in the registry, which is what it seems to do on 
a Windows 2000 computer.  However the native ole32 that I use (which comes 
from I can't remember where) does not expand the string and so the msxml 
stuff stops working.  I suggest as a working hypothesis that the Win95/98 
ole32 does not support the REG_EXPAND_SZ.  (Does the Windows 98 Registry code 
actually allow you to add a REG_EXPAND_SZ to the registry or doe it maybe 
automatically do the expansion on the way into the registry?)

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Bill Medland
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