Well, this is not related to .NET at all, but thought it was worthy of blogging here, since they are web and COM related issues.

At work, we recently had to "hijack" a COM component and host it in our own process space. As part of what we did, we could no longer use this from an HTML webpage with the OBJECT tag & PARAM elements like it was originally used. We were now using JScript and new ActiveXObject syntax. Well the question was: how do you set the PARAM elements like we did in the OBJECT tag?

After much investigation, I finally figured out about IPersistPropertyBag and IPropertyBag, along with ATL's treatment and implementation of these interfaces, and how IE (and any other container I guess for that matter) looks for these incoming parameters. (I'm sure I'm highly simplifying this subject, but it's at least good enough for what our needs were...)

At a high level, what I determined that IE and other containers do is the following:

1. Create an object that implements IPropertyBag, and use it to Write each parameter that you want to set in the object.
   
2. Get the IPersistPropertyBag interface from the object, and call Load, passing the IPropertyBag with the values.
   

ATL implementation
Stuff to be aware of when implementing your IPersistPropertyBag object using ATL. You can derive from IPersistPropertyBagImpl which will do all the work for you.

This implementation uses the PROPERTY MAP entries (see BEGIN_PROP_MAP and friends) to walk your object and see what properties you implement. In the PROP_ENTRY macro, you specify the "name" of the property (as seen by the container, IE html code for example, along with the DISPID of the get/put_propertyXXX methods to access that property. The ATL code will walk the map, and call get/put on each property that it cares about, using Invoke, and the DISPID you put in the macro entry.

I'm probably missing some detail in there, but that's what I remember from a couple days ago when I got this all working.

IngoRammer.Com - Use cases for .NET Remoting and its features
Thanks Kral for the link! :)

.net remoting use cases

.NET Dashboard
Michele Leroux Bustamante's world of eZine .NET articles. Questions are answered by articles.

.NET Rocks! with Carl Franklin and Mark Dunn
Weekly "radio" show, hosts various guests...

Launching No-Touch Deployment Applications with Command Line Arguments
Chris Sells MSDN article

XSLT Transformations and XSLT Intellesense within the .NET IDE
Thanks to Jason that blogged this from Kral!

Tools mentioned by Keith Brown when discussing running as non-admin.

• storeadm /list -- display isolated storage files (isolated storage located at \docs & settings\user\local settings\application data\isolated storage, hidden folder, mangled names)
  
• runas -- cmd prompt tool to run a process as another user (can include network credentials with this runas /netonly /u:MyDomain\MyAccount someProgram.exe
  
• whoami -- cmd prompt tool to tell who you are currently logged in as (wouldn't work on my machine)
  
• set username -- obvious way to show who you are logged in as (but only shows the name, not any domain)
  
• netsh -- configure tcp/ip settings. are you kidding?
  
• cacls -- configure ACLs. danger - this apparently doesn't propagate settings down through sub folders
  
• iexplore -- obviously, the browser. but can do other things: "control panel" in the address bar, or certainly local file paths
  
• compmgmt.msc -- standard computer management MMC snap-in
  

Other Admin Tool Tweaks
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar
BackBitmap= will be displayed as background in IE toolbar
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
Windot Title= (note the space in the name)

Essential .NET Security: How to develop code as a non-admin Stole this link from Kral's blog, always like what Keith Brown has to say.
Also has link to his book that he's writing - Essential .NET Security with online chapters.

Thanks to Chris Gomez for turning me on to the ASP.NET Forums implementation.
Not sure I'll host a forum, but may glean some good code insight here?

Google Microsoft Search
Thanks to Chris Sells. I didn't know this existed. LOL - really like his explanation of it, so I'm quoting it here:
I'm constantly amazed at how few people know about the Microsoft-specific Google site. The results almost always link back to somewhere on microsoft.com but the results seem to be somewhat more [cough] comprehensive than [sneeze] [rub eyes] MS's own search engine. [nudge] [nudge] Enjoy.

FxCop
From the d/l site: Code analysis tool that checks your .NET assemblies for conformance to the .NET framework design guidelines.
naming conventions, library design, localization, security, performance.

Events Under the Hood
Eric Gunnerson MSDN article

World of .NET
"Your ultimate guide to .NET resources across the Internet". Didn't have time to look at this to determine if anything useful. Saw the first article about performance of various iteration methods in .NET and may want to read it someday.

Open the Box! Quick!
Quick discussion by Eric Gunnerson about the performance implications of boxing in CLR.

Nice Box. What’s in It?
Boxing in CLR -- what is it and why is it needed/used. By Eric Gunnerson.

Microsoft Bloggers
includes blogs from MS teams, etc.

list of bloggers related to microsoft

Dr. GUI's Bits and Bytes Blog from Dr. GUI himself.

SD3+C --- latest MS buzzword.
Secure by Default
Secure by Design
Secure in Deployment
Secure in Communications