Rubyinstaller announce - Jun 2004 - Re:Ruby Installer for Windows 1.8.1-13 Release Candidate 2

Hi Curt.

you wrote:
 >>>>
Win32ole is working much better than in the previous release, but
it still has problems.
<<<<
I have a question regarding Win32ole. Does there exist a separate 
mailing list for Win32ole? How can I contact a Win32ole Guru?
Specifically, I''m trying to display MS Window''s DataLink
Wizard. In
Visual C++ I could do the following:
// IDataSourceLocatorPtr  is defined In Oledb32.tlh
IDataSourceLocatorPtr dlPrompt = NULL;

// code fragment:
  try
  {
  // Instantiate DataLinks object.
  TESTHR(hr = dlPrompt.CreateInstance(__uuidof(DataLinks)) );

  // Prompt for connection information.
  m_pConnection = dlPrompt->PromptNew();
  }

How I can do the equivalent in Ruby? Guessing my way throug it, I tried:

dlPrompt = WIN32OLE.new(''Oledb32.DataSourceLocator'')
But I get the following error message.
 HRESULT error code:0x800401f3
   Invalid class string
     from (irb):2:in `initialize''
     from (irb):2:in `new''
     from (irb):2
TIA,
Joseph

Joseph wrote:
> 
> Hi Curt.
> 
> you wrote:
>  >>>>
> Win32ole is working much better than in the previous release, but
> it still has problems.
> <<<<
> I have a question regarding Win32ole. Does there exist a separate 
> mailing list for Win32ole? How can I contact a Win32ole Guru?
The RAA entry for Win32ole has an email link to the owner of the project:

   http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/win32ole/

Curt