Re: Typelib issue
"George" <George@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Just a basic question about when (in what scenarios typelib) will be
used, the current two scenarios I could think of are,
1. using typelib to browse information (e.g. type information) of a
specific type;
2. universal marshaller using typelib to marshall.
Are there any other usage scenarios?
Off the top of my head, ATL uses type information to implement IDispatch
portion of a dual interface, as well as IDispatch for an event sink.
BTW: typelib is generated by IDL file from MIDL compiler, are there
any other ways to generate typelib?
See CreateTypeLib, ICreateTypeLib, ICreateTypeInfo et al. That's what
MIDL uses internally to build the type library. You can call these
interfaces manually, if you feel adventurous.
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