Re: marshalling

From:
"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.atl
Date:
Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:37:57 -0500
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"ajk" <anders43@gmail.com> wrote in message
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On Jan 29, 10:54 am, "Igor Tandetnik" <itandet...@mvps.org> wrote:

"ajk" <ander...@gmail.com> wrote in message

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I have a COM out of proc server "A" which is running as Apartment
threaded. My App is running as free threaded "B". A has a number of
interfaces lets call then IA1, IA2

I create the instance of the "A" and get an interface pointer "IA1",
then I would like to call a function in interface "IA2" where I pass
"IA1" to it.

Now here is where I am confused with marshalling, which interface
do I exactly marshal ?


You don't need to explicitly marshal anything. All the necessary
marshalling will happen transparently.


but why do i get an error then? When both processes run in apartment
thread it works, but when one is free threaded, I get error 0x800706F4
a null reference was passed to the stub (When passing IA1 to IA2)?


Show your code. Also show the IDL definition of the two interfaces.
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