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Exposed COM DLL or Executable and Macro Features

For macro features that define their behavior using COM, a COM server needs to implement the ISwComFeature interface. This interface has three methods that must be implemented in the appropriate macro feature function:

To associate the COM server with the macro feature, supply the program ID of the COM server as an argument to IFeatureManager::InsertMacroFeature3 or IFeatureManager::IInsertMacroFeature3.



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