Re: Singleton Server Problem, please help

From:
"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.atl
Date:
Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:12:10 -0400
Message-ID:
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"Thomas" <Thomas@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F14DC32D-F86A-4FC8-ABF3-B9F239DF927B@microsoft.com

If the first client connects to the Server the ATL server is started.
All other clients will also connect to one server instance! The first
client is calling the mthod put_FieldCollection. All other clients
can now call get_FieldCollection successful.

If client 1 is terminated no other client can call
get_FieldCollection(...). The remote Server is not available.


Of course. The server is just storing a reference to an object that
lives in client1. Basically, you turn client1 itself into the server,
whether it likes it or not.

I think my problem is the put_FieldCollection(IFieldCollection
*newVal) mehod. How can I clone the interface from Client1 context
to Server context???


You can't clone an interface. An interface is an abstract class and
cannot exist on its own. You need to implement this interface on some
object in your server, and somehow deep-copy the underlying data over.
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