The other day I created a Console application and changed some colors and sizes. Then I needed to change the font (programmatically). I looked at the System.Console class – nothing. Maybe they just forgot to wrap it up, I thought, and turned to the Win32 API functions for the Console. Guess what? Nothing. Well, almost nothing. There’s a new function (starting with Vista) called SetCurrentConsoleFontEx , but it’s almost useless. It requires a console font index (which is supposed to be from a console...
We all know that when we use COM interop with .NET we get some RCW (Runtime Callable Wrapper) CLR object representing and controlling access to the underlying COM object. When we call the C# new operator, under the hood the RCW calls the CoCreateInstance API to create the actual COM object, etc. What may not be apparent, is that there may exist another proxy to the COM object, even if the COM server is a DLL (in-process server). The reason this may happen is related to COM apartments. an Apartment...