Oleview not available on Windows 10?

Question

i want to get a COM viewer and i found oleview from Microsoft. So... this is verry nice that Microsoft delivers a COM Viewer by itself but i cant download it from the official Microsoft Website or from the ADK. I installed it, i reinstalled it, etc... but Oleview.exe is not on the ADK.

I found some posts that some people have oleview.exe installed and they are running but i dont want to install it from a third-party website.

Is Oleview still available on Windows 10 or is it just for other Versions of Windows?

BTW: I have Windows 10 Enterprise, Version: 1511 with the newest ADK which is available.

Answer 1

https://github.com/tyranid/oleviewdotnet seems to work. There are 32 and 64 bit viewers in it.

Answer 2

According to https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/com/ole-com-object-viewer

The OLE/COM Object Viewer, oleview.exe, is an application supplied in the Windows SDK that displays the COM objects installed on your computer...

The OLE/COM Object Viewer app is found in the Windows SDK in \Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10[version][architecture]\oleview.exe.

The Windows SDK download presently is located at: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/windows-sdk/

For example on my Win10 PC, it is located in: C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\10.0.19041.0\x64\oleview.exe

Answer 3

Sadly there is no option to enable it back. I tried one other .EXE but it was just a virus(i tried it in a VM)

It seems that Oleview is no longer available and supported.

Answer 4

Here is the way to get OLEView, and have it working on Win 10 (probably Win 11 too).

This is a shame M$ made it so complicated to obtain.

METHOD 1: Use official OLEView

• 1. Download the version 2.10.059 from https://download.microsoft.com/download/win2000platform/oleview/1.00.0.1/NT5/EN-US/oleview_setup.exe It works, but the IViewers.dll file is missing.
• 2. Download the version 2.10.057 from https://web.archive.org/web/20200810214948/https://download.microsoft.com/download/2/f/1/2f15a59b-6cd7-467b-8ff2-f162c3932235/ovi386.exe This is an older version, working, but here we just need the IViewers.dll : copy it to the folder where you installed version 2.0.059.

There you are !

How to use it :

• Explore the "All Objects" section
• Select an object and unfold/develop it (ex. Scripting.Dictionary)
• Right-click an interface (ex. IDispatch) then View
• Click on View TypeInfo
• On the new window, unfold/develop the Methods

METHOD #2: Alternatively, use OLEView NET

This a replacement program developed by a third-party. To use it, proceed like this: https://stackoverflow.com/a/42944052/3487940

PS : I tried to get OLEView "the official way" by installing the Windows SDK (tried the SDK for Win 10, for Win 8, and even for Win 7), and always checked the options "Debugging Tools": I've never been able to get this thing installing OLEView on my disk!