On May 23, 4:45 ¨Βν¬ ΓθαςμεΓαμφεςΌγβ®®®ΐωαθοο®γονχςοτεΊ > On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:20:39 -0500, Marc Ch <wooingr... / gmail.com> > wrote in <71558ab1e7dee6bafba69ea693749... / ruby-forum.com>: > > >Thanks for the replies; very useful stuff. ¨Βαωβε Ι§βμιξδ¬ βυΙ§φε > >been crawling through the MSDN documentation for help with iexpress, and > >I can't seem to figure out what its object is called. ¨Βθε βεστ γα> >find is a list of what command line switches/options it supports > >(http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb496369.aspx). > > I suspect that it doesn't expose and OLE interface. ¨Βαξοζ > Microsoft's applications don't. ¨Βυιμδιξσυγθ αξ ιξτεςζαγισ τινε > consuming and costly, and I doubt they'd bother for something like > that. > > Googling didn't turn up anything, so I suspect that you're out of > luck. > I also doubt iexpress has OLE interface. Anyway if you are interested in using Ruby for automation on Windows you can read my article about MS Office automation I recently had to deal with on http://pragmaticdevnotes.wordpress.com/2008/12/17/with-a-little-help-from-ruby/. Unfortunately I forgot to list some tools that can be useful for such a tasks and the main one is: http://homepage1.nifty.com/markey/ruby/win32ole/soleb-0.0.1a.zip With it you can browse all OLE objects registered on your system, see their methods, properties and some other things. You should start it and check whether iexpress has registered some OLE interfaces at all. Besides you can examine code and see how you can get information about OLE methods and their arguments, OLE properties, etc. Regards, Boo Ivani¥±evi