Passing interface derived from IDispatch as a parameter

From:
"Igor R." <igor.rubinov@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.atl
Date:
Mon, 4 Jan 2010 05:28:33 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID:
<7d504054-8913-4a6d-84e8-824dea444ea1@j4g2000yqe.googlegroups.com>
Hello,

Is it possible to get a dual interface (not IDispatch!), passed as a
parameter to Invoke, marshaled correctly?

I've got a source dispinterface with a method defined like this:
[id(1), helpstring("method notify")] HRESULT notify([in] IMySender
*sender);

where IMySender is:

[
    object,
    uuid(...),
    dual,
    nonextensible,
    pointer_default(unique)
]
interface IMySender : IDispatch
{
//...
}

So in the CP implementation I've got a code like this:

HRESULT Fire_Notify(int id, IMySender *sender)
{
  //iterate through connections...
  ...
  CComVariant avarParams[1];
  avarParams[0] = sender;
  avarParams[0].vt = VT_DISPATCH;
  CComVariant varResult;
  DISPPARAMS params = { avarParams, NULL, 1, 0 };
  hr = pConnection->Invoke(id, IID_NULL, LOCALE_USER_DEFAULT,
DISPATCH_METHOD, &params, &varResult, NULL, NULL);
  ...
}

However, this doesn't work when the event is fired into another
apartment: IMySender is not marshaled well (only IDispatch part of it
is actually marshaled), so that any call to its methods crashes.
"Dirty" workaround is to perform explicit QI:

void onNotify(IMySender *sender)
{
  IDispatch *disp = sender;
  CComQIPtr<IMySender> goodSender(disp);
  goodSender->...;
}

My question is whether it's possible to pass "typed" interface
correctly in such situation?

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