Q&A
| Q1: | What are some applications that support Automation? |
| A1: | All the Microsoft Office products, as well as Microsoft Visio, support Automation. You can create a useful application by building a client that makes use of multiple Automation servers. For instance, you could calculate data in Excel and then format and print the data in Word. |
| Q2: | Can you automate a component without creating a reference to a type library? |
| A2: | Yes, but this is considerably more complicated than when using a type library. First, you can't early-bind to objects, because Visual C# .NET knows nothing about the objects without a type library. This means you have no IntelliSense drop-down list to help you navigate the object model; the chances for bugs in this situation ... |
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