// Oprogramowanie Roman Ryltsov
In one of the earlier posts I mentioned a problem with registration-free COM dependency setup up by Visual Studio as a part of build process. This post is about the tool that offers an alternate solution for the problems, and also gives more: standalone, independent from build, addition/removal registration-free COM links automation of registration-free COM…
Visual Studio offers COM reference isolation to applications so that COM dependency is used in a usual way, and in the same time there is no need in its registration or another copy of the COM server might be registered system wide, or using per-user registration, and the application would still prefer a local copy…
DirectShow Spy is introducing integration with GraphStudioNext (and GraphEdit too) to let a developer quickly open a filter graph through Running Object table with external inspection tool. Note that you need a revision 301 GraphStudioNext or later, prebuilt versions available for download here: graphstudionext.exe (Win32), graphstudionext64.exe (x64). DirectShow Filter Graph list window offers context menu items and hotkeys to…
Summary DirectShow Spy receives a set of new powerful updates helping to develop and troubleshoot DirectShow applications: UI combining Markdown formatted filter graph details as well as property pages for all participating filters available interactively via filter graph list available via helper COM class letting DirectShow application integrate incredible troubleshooting capabilities Option to email filter…
A typical task for DirectShow Spy is to get installed onto, make the target application filter graphs available for inspection and… then get inspected with some additional tool. The last step assumes there is an additional application ready to pick the graphs and an interactive user attaches to the graphs for visual inspection and troubleshooting.…
Once upon a time Windows SDK (or it was Visual Studio) had a tool named IROTVIEW which enumerated Running Object Table (ROT). Running Object Table Viewer IROTVIEW displays information about ActiveX and OLE objects currently existing in memory. People ask “Where is IROTVIEW?” and there is no answer. The API is really simple, but if…
A small issue appears to be affecting DirectShow applications with DirectShow Spy installed. As underlying COM base is non-standard, the spy implements a few hacks to run smoothly and to keep reference counting correct in particular. Under certain conditions, DirectShow-enabled ActiveX control hosted by Internet Explorer seems to be unable to put its graph onto…