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Moniker
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See Chapter 7 "Monikers and Structured Storage"
for information on Monikers



Minimum System Requirements
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Windows 95 with DCOM installed or Windows NT 4.0
Visual C++ 5.0 Professional
Visual Basic 5.0 Professional



Custom Activation Interface
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C++ client, C++ Component
1.  Open "Custom Activation Interface.dsw" in Visual C++
2.  Build Client.exe
    (this also builds Component.exe)
3.  Run Component.exe to register
4.  Run Client.exe to test

VB client, C++ Component
1.  If you haven't already, build and register Component.exe
    created above
2.  Open "Custom Activation Interface\VBClient.vbp" in Visual Basic
3.  Choose Run/Start and then click on Form1 to test



Marvelous Moniker
=================
C++ client (local)
1.  Open "Marvelous Moniker.dsw" in Visual C++
2.  Build Moniker.dll
3.  Register Moniker.dll
4.  Specify local computer name (MyHost) in client.cpp
5.  Build Client.exe
    (this also builds Component.exe)
6.  Run Component.exe to register
7.  Run Client.exe to test

C++ client (remote)
Local computer can be Windows 95 with DCOM or Windows NT 4.0
Remote computer must be Windows NT 4.0
1.  Open "Marvelous Moniker.dsw" in Visual C++
2.  Build Moniker.dll
3.  Specify remote computer name (MyHost) in client.cpp
4.  Build Client.exe
    (this also builds Component.exe)
5.  Register Moniker.dll and Component.exe on local computer
6.  Copy Component.exe to remote computer
7.  Run Component.exe on remote computer to register
8.  Run Client.exe on local computer to test

VB client (local)
1.  Register Moniker.dll and Component.exe on local computer
2.  Open "Marvelous Moniker\VBClient.vbp" in Visual Basic
3.  Specify local computer name (hostname) in Form1
4.  Choose Run-Start and then click on Form1 to test

VB client (remote)
Local computer can be Windows 95 with DCOM or Windows NT 4.0
Remote computer must be Windows NT 4.0
1.  Register Moniker.dll and Component.exe on local computer
2.  Register Component.exe on remote computer
3.  Open "Marvelous Moniker\VBClient.vbp" in Visual Basic
4.  Specify remote computer name (hostname) in Form1
5.  Choose Run/Start and then click on Form1 to test



Moniker Utilities
=================
1.  Open Utilities.dsw in Visual C++
2.  Build "Class Moniker Activation.exe"
    (this also builds Component.dll)
3.  Register Component.dll
4.  Run "Class Moniker Activation.exe" to test
5.  In "Class Moniker Activation.cpp", comment out the BindMoniker
    statement and remove comments from the 4 lines that start with
    IBindCtx* pClassBindCtx; as shown here:
    // BindMoniker(pClassMoniker, 0, IID_IClassFactory,
    // (void**)&pClassFactory);

    IBindCtx* pClassBindCtx;
    CreateBindCtx(0, &pClassBindCtx);
    pClassMoniker->BindToObject(pClassBindCtx, NULL, 
        IID_IClassFactory, (void**)&pClassFactory);
    pClassBindCtx->Release();
6.  ReBuild "Class Moniker Activation.exe"
7.  Run "Class Moniker Activation.exe" to test
8.  Build CoGetObject.exe
9.  Run CoGetObject.exe to test
10. Build "MkParseDisplayName Client.exe"
11. Run "MkParseDisplayName Client.exe" to test
12. Build ROT.exe
13. Run ROT.exe to view objects in Running Object Table



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