Re: CoCreateInstance inside a COM dll?

From:

"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.atl

Date:

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:32:14 -0400

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<#0$1Y0n5HHA.600@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>

Donos <donguy76@gmail.com> wrote:

Ok here i am going to get a interface pointer using the following
function, This is inside the COM.

STDMETHOD GetMyInterface(IMyInterface** pMyInterface, VARIANT_BOOL*
pResult)
{
-------------------------
QueryInterface(__uuidof(IMyInterface), (void **)&pMyInterface);

Drop the ampersand. pMyInterface is already a pointer to a pointer, you
should not take its address.

Also, I don't see you set *pResult to anything, nor return any HRESULT.

Now inside Client app, i add the code as,

GetInterface()
{
IMyInterface** pInterface;
HRESULT hr = m_pFirstInterface->GetMyInterface(&pInterface,
(VARIANT_BOOL*)&rc);
}

GetMyInterface takes IMyInterface**. You are passing IMyInterface***.

Where is rc declared?

In any case, I don't see the point of the exercise. Why do you need
GetMyInterface method? Why can't the client simply do

IMyInterface* pInterface = 0;
HRESULT hr = m_pFirstInterface->QueryInterface(__uuidof(IMyInterface),
(void**)&pInterface);

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