Ever been annoyed by not being able to find the real object behind System.__ComObject? There is a solution and guess what; it's VB.Net (or at least the VB API)! Carlos has a how-to article that explains the solution. In essence you just have to have a reference (if you're running C# or a non VB language) to Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll. You can then use Microsoft.VisualBasic.Information.TypeName(someObject) to get the info you want. Thanks to Pablo Galiano for his blog post on this.