[crinkly]

This is typically what I see when I’ve seen it applied. And as always trying to hammer nails in with a banana.

Rather than fit two generally disparate things together it’s probably better to just use VSTO and C# (hammer and nails) rather than some unholy combination no one else has tried or suffered through. When it goes wrong there’s more info to get you unstuck.

[piker]

To be fair though, unsafe rust (where the COM lives) is basically just C, so I totally expected it to be tractable in the same way it has been tractable for the last 20ish years? But it isn’t.

Why is interacting with the OS’ API in a compiled language the wrong approach in 2025? Why must I use this managed Frankenstein’s monster of dotnet? I didn’t want to ship or expect a whole runtime for what should be a tiny convenience DLL. Insane