Re: Need help to return string value from COM

From:
"Alexander Nickolov" <agnickolov@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.atl
Date:
Mon, 19 Jun 2006 12:54:59 -0700
Message-ID:
<uxp4$o9kGHA.3512@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl>
Wow, that much code when a simple API call would suffice...

STDMETHODIMP CMyObj::Echo(BSTR val, BSTR* ret) {
    *ret = SysAllocString(val);
    return (val == NULL) || (*ret != NULL) ? S_OK : E_OUTOFMEMORY;
}

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"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:%23hFfoy6kGHA.1260@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...

agarunk@gmail.com wrote:

I'm trying to create a .dll using ATL, which I want use in C#.

Can anybody please guide me to create a simple method / function which
takes string in input parameters and returns the same(string)..


// in IDL

HRESULT Echo([in] BSTR val, [out, retval] BSTR* ret);

// in C++

STDMETHODIMP CMyObj::Echo(BSTR val, BSTR* ret) {
   CComBSTR bstr;
   bstr.Attach(val);
   HRESULT hr = bstr.CopyTo(ret);
   bstr.Detach();
   return hr;
}

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