.NET Assembly with COM interop interface

Hi, I use DocumentX 2010 to create documentation for our .NET assemblies. For the first time, we have created an assembly with a COM interface. Is it possible to create a context-sensitive CHM for this assembly that will work in VB6 (for example, press F1 on a method to open help for that method)? We have ActiveX components that were built in VC++, and if I build docs for these, the F1 help works. However, I am not sure how to do this for the .NET assembly with the COM interface. If I try to add it as a COM Component, I see an InteropServices.COMException error and it fails to load the dll. If I add it as a .NET Assembly, the resulting chm is not picked up when F1 is pressed in VB6. Perhaps there are additional attributes that need to be added to the component code? Thanks for any help. -ken

Permanently deleted user 13 October 2010 05:17

I wanted to post a follow up here for anyone interested as we have been following this one up via the support channel. We hit a road block as .NET does not appear to allow the help file to be specified for the type library that is generated for a .NET component that exposes COM types. Without the help file, COM IDEs such as VB6 will not be able to locate the help file for F1 help.

.NET Assembly with COM interop interface

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