MediaMonkey COM interface with C++

[ccom]

I have very limited experience with COM and was hoping that someone here may be able to help me. I want to access the MediaMonkey COM object through the COM API, but I have no idea how without any type headers.

Is there a header available or some other way?

[mcow]

I've only done COM interaction with Python, which interrogates the object server to find out what the interface is.
In general, I think the C++ technique boils down to (roughly, I don't know if these names or syntax are correct):

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sdb = new ComObject("SongsDB.Application");
sdb->Invoke(methodID);   // where you need to have a list of methodIDs


I did find this tutorial online. The guy who wrote it was talking about it in another forum, and said that altho it's primarily PowerBasic-related, the first tutorial has a lot of C++ code. Maybe it will help.
I also saw a reference saying that using Microsoft's ATL library is the best way to interface to COM from C++.

[ccom]

The main source of trouble is the importing of the type library. Any idea how to accomplish that?

[mcow]

This page at MSDN addresses that.

Since MM doesn't include the .tlb file with the distro (maybe it's available if you ask?) it looks like you can use the #import on either the .EXE file (or maybe one of the .DLLs, but the ones I see in the MM3 directory look from their names to be specific to certain functions).

[Peke]

Use #import on MM exe.

[mcow]

Use #import on MM exe.

Skinned or unskinned? Or does it make no difference?