Re: Enumerating COM objects on the client side

From:
"Alexander Nickolov" <agnickolov@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.atl
Date:
Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:40:15 -0700
Message-ID:
<#vbYZLCtHHA.2752@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl>
That of course wouldn't work, since the enumerator only
implements IEnumVARIANT. You need to enumerate using
the IEnumVARIANT::Next and apply the nested loop on each
element retrieved (using the same two-step approach).

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"Brian Muth" <bmuth@mvps.org> wrote in message
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<fueagk@leeds.ac.uk> wrote in message
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Hi, does anyone know a suitable method for accessing a list of COM
objects. I have sample code for VB that uses the foreach command:

//On an event which updates various lists (Client side)
foreach (XTAPI.ITTPriceUpdate priceUpdate in pNotify.PriceList)
{
    foreach (XTAPI.ITTPriceEntry priceEntry in priceUpdate)
    {
        do some stuff....
    }
}

Here priceEntry is a list of objects within priceUpdate which is a
list of objects within pricelist. Unfortunately I need to achieve the
same thing in VC++ 6.

I access these objects through smart pointers and with these pointers
there are various methods I can use.
E.g.
XTAPI::ITTPriceUpdatePtr priceUpdate;
priceUpdate ->Get_NewEnum();
//returns an IUnknownPtr.


This doesn't look quite right. You should be calling Get_NewEnum on the
pNotify.PriceList interface. So it might look like this:

XTAPI::IPricListPtr pricelist;
XTAPI::ITTPriceUpdatePtr priceUpdate;

priceUpdate = pricelist->Get_NewEnum();

Note the implied QueryInterface call that is performed.

At the moment I can't even access any of the priceUpdate objects. I
think i have to use some sort of enumeration but I'm not sure if the
distributors have got a good facility for this within their dll.


If they are supporting this for VB clients, you can do it with a VC++
client.

Brian

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