Al, yeah - keep us up-to-date on your progress, i for one am certainly interested in what your doing. As if you dont have enough status reports to write ?

In terms of the docs, etc ... jlo is right. But to my mind, after you get working with COM objects for a little while, your intuitive ability to guess at how an object model works starts to kick in. Your guesses at what the method or property name "could be" gets more and more accurate. Plus, the search strings you use to lookup stuff on the FW get better and better responses. Plus, what you learn from one MS object model usually can be ported to another. Not sure if any of the old COM hacks on this board can back me on this one.

-Shawn