To facilitate the handling of component categories and to guarantee consistency of the registry, the system provides the Component Categories Manager, a COM object with a CLSID of CLSID_StdComponentCategoriesMgr. This COM object provides the following interfaces:
ICatInformation provides methods for obtaining information about the categories implemented or required by a certain class and provides information about the categories registered on a given machine.
ICatRegister provides methods for registering and unregistering component category information in the registry. This includes both the human-readable names of categories and the categories implemented or required by a given component or class.
See Also
- Associating Icons with a Category
- Categorizing by Component Capabilities
- Categorizing by Container Capabilities
- Default Classes and Associations
- Defining Component Categories
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