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This is a log of the chat room during the live audio chat from December 6, 2004 on Delphi 2005 with Chris Bensen, a Borland R&D Engineer. Chris discusses his work on ActiveX, COM, .NET interop, VLI and the New Component wizard for Delphi 2005 in this chat.

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aohlsson : As was announced, the topic is ActiveX, COM, .NET interop, VLI and the New Component wizard, etc. Feel free to fill up the question queue using /ask or hit the "ask" button.

jkaster : aohlsson : "If I have a Win32 DLL, is it just a matter of running a wizard for the VLI stuff to get an interface to call my Win32 stuff through?" - No, you have to define an interface yourself. Hopefully you can copy and paste from the interface definition.

jkaster : vdv : "what happened to the active-form wizard? Any chance to get it back for D32?" - We're discussing ways to bring this back, perhaps in a patch for Delphi 2005.

jkaster : Serge_d : "is it a feature of a wizard to do not create package if current project is an application?" - I think it's a lack of a feature more than a feature. If you have a project that supports adding a component, that will be available.

jkaster : Serge_d : "Is there a plans for wizards to create COM wrapper from .Net or .Net from COM" - We already do some of this, so I'm not sure what this is asking.

jkaster : mrpmorris : "What is wrong with a .net assembly being exposed to COM by default?" - Nothing wrong with it, it's perfectly valid. It's an odd design approach to make it totally visible to the world because the GUIDs change.

jkaster : Leonel : "Do you plan to make VLI available in Win32, to simplify loading of regular DLLs?" - yes , investigating that as we speak!