Re: Non-creatable classes
Ignacio Burgue?o <blabla@blabla.com> wrote:
I have a com server which returns new instances of class A. I don't
want A to be createable. Only when requesting it to my server. So,
following the article on private hierarchies, I removed its .rgs
file, deleted its OBJECT_ENTRY and DECLARE_REGISTRY_RESOURCEID. So
far, so good. My question is: what's the difference between leaving
the definition
of the coclass A in the IDL and marking it as [noncreatable], and
removing the definition from the IDL, and not inheriting from
CComCoClass ?
Not much. Some languages, most notably VB, can use coclass name as a
synonym for its default interface when they see coclass statement in the
TLB. VB programmers like this, for some reason.
It also can be viewed as a means of documentation.
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