Re: improt .dll works while import .idl doesn't

From:

"Alexander Nickolov" <agnickolov@mvps.org>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.win32.programmer.ole,microsoft.public.vc.atl,microsoft.public.vc.mfcole,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.ole

Date:

Thu, 12 Oct 2006 13:46:03 -0700

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#import works with type libraries. An IDL file is _not_
a type library, so why would you use it with #import?
Are you by chance confusing #import (MS C++ extension)
with import (an IDL statement)? The latter is only valid
within an IDL file obviously...

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"BruceWho" <Bruce.Who.HK@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1160617093.106315.19500@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...

Hi, all

I use a com control this way in my application:

#import "mycom.dll" no_namespace, named_guids

and everything is OK. But if I use OLE VIEW open the mycom.dll by "View
TypeLib" and save it as "mycom.idl", then I changed my code to:

#import "mycom.idl" no_namespace, named_guids

, the idl file cannot be compiled. errors are like this:

error MIDL2025 : syntax error : expecting a type specification near
"ObjectTypeCode"
error MIDL2026 : cannot recover from earlier syntax errors; aborting
compilation

Could anybody point me out? Any help is appreciated!

Bruce

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