Re: How to force creation of COM object through method call

From:

"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.atl

Date:

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:52:39 -0500

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Matt Houser <MattHouser@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

I have 2 ATL COM objects:
1. CObject1 implements IObject1
2. CObject2 implements IObject2

I don't want consumers of the classes to be able to create a CObject1
directly. Instead, I want them to use IObject2::CreateObject1() to
create the object.

1. How do I hide a COM object from being created external to my ATL
library?

Don't derive it from CComCoClass, don't write a coclass statement for it
in the IDL, don't list it in OBJECT_ENTRY[_AUTO]. This way it doesn't
have a CLSID associated with it.

2. When I do create my object internally, do I create a CObject1 and
return it, or do I do CoCreateInstance() and return that?

The usual pattern goes like this:

STDMETHODIMP CObject2::CreateObject1(IObject1** pp) {
    if (!pp) return E_POINTER;
    *pp = NULL;

    CComObject<CObject1>* pObj = NULL;
    HRESULT hr = CComObject<CObject1>::CreateInstance(&pObj);
    if (pObj) {
        pObj->AddRef();

        // any initialization you may need to perform;
        // the name "Init" is for exposition only.
        pObj->Init();

        hr = pObj->QueryInterface(pp);
        pObj->Release();
    }

    return hr;
}

--
With best wishes,
    Igor Tandetnik

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