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Asked: 2026-05-11T13:53:36+00:00

I am trying to get actual function names from their ordinal numbers from a

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I am trying to get actual function names from their ordinal numbers from a COM dll. I tried using dumpbin.exe but it only returns [NONAME] for each ordinal (except the first few).

     ordinal hint RVA      name           21    0 00002439 DllCanUnloadNow          25    1 00007F41 DllGetClassObject         116    2 0000539C DllMain         138    3 00008633 DllRegisterServer         176    4 00008640 DllUnregisterServer           1      0009152E [NONAME]           2      00154CA7 [NONAME]           3      00154C0B [NONAME]           4      000140C9 [NONAME]         ...

The directory containing the .dll file doesn’t contain any other files (*.tlb, *.lib, *.def).

Could someone tell me how to get a list of these? Or at least the name of a specific ordinal using registry or something?

[EDIT: Additional info] I cannot find the .def file for the COM dll, so I cannot use it to get the name. I am not interested in instantiating the COM class, I only want to know what function is related to a specified ordinal.

My original problem is that I have found an exception using WinDbg, which happens in ChartFXClientServerCore!Ordinal5507(+0x97b7), so I would like to see the specific function to try to isolate the problem.

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  1. You can use the OleView tool (OLE/COM Object Viewer), which ships (among others) with the Windows SDK, http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=F26B1AA4-741A-433A-9BE5-FA919850BDBF&displaylang=en. In that tool, go to File->View TypeLib and then browse to your DLL.

    EDIT: In response to the question about the relationship between DLL ordinals and method names exposed by the typelib: It is not too common for methods exposed via COM to be also exposed via the DEF file or via __declspec(dllimport). Typically you access COM methods via their IUnknown-derived interface, after having created the corresponding class via CoCreateInstance() or similar.

    The programmer of the DLL can also choose to expose some of the COM methods in the DEF file, but AFAIK the only way to figure out the mapping is to look at the output of dumpbin /exports, un-decorate the returned names (with undname.exe) and visually find a correspondence in the typelib.

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