>Craig,
>
>I am aware of that. I was asking if someplace like the registry would contain that information. Just some direction as to where I might look (keywords etc) would be appreciated.
>

The information is contained in a number of places, and can be viewed with several different tools. The VB Object Browser or VC++ OLE COM Object Viewer will allow you to examine the OLE Interface in detail; this will not describe the meaning of various constants, or what the various methods and properties do, but will tell you what the published interface looks like. This information comes from either the object itself or an associated .TLB.

The registry won't contain any of the information you're looking for; it contains isntallation-specific details on the variosu COM Servers (the GUIDs and CLSIDs, ProgIDs, name of in- and out-of process servers, etc.) but not the entire interface, which is encapsulated in the object itself. To expand the registry to contain all the information on the innner workings of the interface would likely require the registry grow by a couple of orders of magnitude, and there'd be no benefit derived from putting the details there. Think of the registry in terms of what people often do with simple configuration or INI files, and that's the sort of information you'd look to the registry to find.

Dave Frankenbach's Web site has a good deal of information on the constants used by various MS Office components' OLE Server interfaces. You might want to check there for starters.

The Office Resource Kit and other Office Developer documentation also contain some information that might be useful to you, but they are not freebies. I have the various RKs on-hand from my MSDN Universal subscription; they are not a part of the MSDN basic documentation set AFAIK, but might be available on MS's Web Pages somewhere via MSDN OnLine. You'll have to check.

There have been numerous articles on OLE Automation topics in the past few months in both FoxPro Advisor and FoxTalk, both VFP-specific publications. Both will sell back issues or copies of articles, along with associated source code, to you. And Hentzenwerkes also a some books due to be published that discuss OLE Automation and VFP in the (hopefully) not-too-distant future.

>Thanks
>
>Rex
>
>>>All,
>>>
>>>Where can I find lists of Automation server commands for Microsoft products. I checked my Visual Studio MSDN CD but couldn't find them.
>>>
>>>TIA
>>>
>>>Rex
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>>There is not one list as each product will have it's own commands.