Exposing .NET/COM Objects as Dreamweaver JSExtensions

[Joris van Lier]

Hi fellow extension developers,
I'm researching a way to have Dreamweaver call into COM Objects,
specifically how to expose these to the Dreamweaver runtime as a JSObject.

I've experimented with the mm_jsapi examples for C++ 6.0 but find
programming in C/C++ to be very challenging with my current skill-set. I'd
rather apply my existing knowledge of the .NET framework and programming in
C#, by exposing my Objects to COM, but am unsure about how I should wrap
these objects in a JSExtension object.

I realize that I'm probably oversimplifying the solution, I imagine a lot
of work may go into marshalling values from COM to C to JavaScript and back
again, then again, maybe the only thing I need to know is how to instantiate
a com object and call it's methods in C.

I'd appreciate any tips or advice from anyone more versed in C(++) and COM
or just any bright idea or a link to RTFM.

Joris van Lier
--
Merry Xmas everybody

[Joris van Lier]

"Joris van Lier" <whizzrd@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:fkto6n$9c5$1@forums.macromedia.com...

> Hi fellow extension developers,
> I'm researching a way to have Dreamweaver call into COM Objects,
> specifically how to expose these to the Dreamweaver runtime as a JSObject.
>
> I've experimented with the mm_jsapi examples for C++ 6.0 but find
> programming in C/C++ to be very challenging with my current skill-set.
> I'd rather apply my existing knowledge of the .NET framework and
> programming in C#, by exposing my Objects to COM, but am unsure about how
> I should wrap these objects in a JSExtension object.
>
> I realize that I'm probably oversimplifying the solution, I imagine a lot
> of work may go into marshalling values from COM to C to JavaScript and
> back again, then again, maybe the only thing I need to know is how to
> instantiate a com object and call it's methods in C.
>
> I'd appreciate any tips or advice from anyone more versed in C(++) and COM
> or just any bright idea or a link to RTFM.
>
> Joris van Lier
> --
> Merry Xmas everybody

Oh my , what have I gotten myself into.... I feel like I'm tumbling from one
rabbit-hole into another,

after reading this article
[url]http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/08/01/CLRInsideOut[/url]
marshalling between COM, C and Dreamweaver's Javascript Engine still seems
like a black art

What I'm trying to implement is "calling a Visual Studio Custom Tool from
Dreamweaver",
such custom tools are COM objects that operate on certain files and generate
code,
it would be nice to be able to do this from Dreamweaver since the ASP.NET
serverbehaviors will be removed in the next version,