Re^2: How to find GUID of Typelibrary for a given OLE Object?

[Anonymous Monk]

Thank you for your sample, but your code won't return anything for 'Excel.Application' (since the type library in question is named 'Microsoft Excel 9.0 Object Library'.. Do you have any other ideas?

[barbie]

This is the PROGID, which doesn't appear to be returned by Win32::OLE. However you could cheat and add the following to the previous code:

sub ApplicationTypeLib {
    my $typelib = shift;
    $typelib =~ s/\.Application//;
    for my $lib (@Library) {
        return @$lib    if($lib->[1] =~ /$typelib/);
    }
    return ();
}

[Anonymous Monk]

Thanks for your answer! Is this hack GUARANTEED to work for any ActiveX object name (i.e. is this naming scheme a some form of a standard)? (I mean is there anything regarding this in OLE specs)? Can I rely on this hack in my code?

[abhinavvaid]

Using Perl with OLE. There are various tools available in the market to get the GUID's. The one that comes with Active Perl k/a browser works well. And then there are ways to track it via registry and Microsoft OLE viewer also.