VB.NET Language Pocket Reference

Name

GetObject Function — Microsoft. VisualBasic.Interaction

Synopsis

GetObject([pathname] [, class])

pathname optional; String

The full path and name of the file containing the COM (or ActiveX) object.

class optional; String

The class of the object. The class argument has these parts:

Appname required; String

The name of the application.

Objecttype required; String

The class of object to create, delimited from Appname by using a period ( . ). For example, Appname.Objecttype.

Return Value

A reference to an ActiveX object

Description

Accesses an ActiveX server held within a specified file.