Steven Edison
2/8/2007 2:32:00 PM
Hi,
My company has a large library of COM objects we've been using for years,
it's massive,
re-writing would take months to years.
One of these objects has a method that looks something like this:
HRESULT EnumItems(IUnkown* pUnk, VARIANT Param);
The IUnknown is a callback, where you would have done something like this:
class CCallback : public ICallbackInterface
{
//Implement dummy Release and AddRefs, supply a good
QueryInterface()
HRESULT MyCallback(LONG ValueNeeded1, BSTR ValueNeeded2, VARIANT
Param)
{
//do something with supplied information
return S_OK;
}
//...
};
CCallback* pCb = new CCallback;
pObj->EnumItems((IUnknown*)pCb, this);
internally it Queries for ICallbackInterface and feeds data to the callback.
Now I need to use this in my C# ASP.NET site. So I made something like
this:
//ref COM obj and convert to managed dll.
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using MyObjLib;
[ComVisible(true)] //added with no difference after getting error
public class CallbackClass : CallbackInterface
{
public void MyCallback(int ValueNeeded1, string ValueNeeded2, object
Param)
{
//deal with it
}
};
CallbackClass cc = new CallbackClass;
pObj.EnumItems(cc, this);
and I get this:
**Exception Details: System.InvalidOperationException: This type has a
ComVisible(false) parent in its hierarchy, therefore QueryInterface calls
for IDispatch or class interfaces are disallowed.
pointing to my Enum function. What am I doing wrong? and how can I use
this interface in C# correctly?
Thanks for any help!
Steven