Re: use customized data type in IDispatch.Invoke

From:
"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Wed, 17 Sep 2008 08:46:56 -0400
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"George" <George@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F4D3F80E-1526-405D-B692-C33B538EC7DB@microsoft.com

My current confusion is, in IDL I have defined some customized data
type (some struct) and in some methods I use such customized data
type as input parameter or return value. Even if the data members of
the struct are all VARIANT types, I think the struct itself is not
VARIANT type, correct?


http://vcfaq.mvps.org/com/4.htm

If I want to support IDispatch.Invoke to consume the methods, could I
use such customized data type either as input parameter or return
value, I may support C++/Visual Basic/VBScrit client?


Only VB (and of course, C++) can handle structs in automation
interfaces. Scripts can't.
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