Re: Can't seem to get abstract to work in unmanaged class
"nickdu" <nickdu@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3A4FA5AD-52EE-4BB8-B83E-2324F6D8C73C@microsoft.com...
I want to define something like an interface, however I
want one of the
methods to make use of a variable number of arguments and
since an interface
won't let me do that I figured an abstract class would be
the next best
thing. After reading
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/z8ew2153.aspx
I assumed I would be able to define this unmanaged C++
abstract class in
VS.NET 2003. However when I compile with the class
defined as:
#pragma once
#include <stdarg.h>
class ILogger abstract
{
public:
virtual void Log(short type, long severityLevel, const
char *format, ...) =
0;
virtual void LogArg(short type, long severityLevel, const
char *format,
va_list argList) = 0;
};
I get the following error:
...
c:\data\development\interface\logger.h(6) : error C2470:
'abstract' : looks
like
a function definition, but there is no formal parameter
list; skipping
apparent
body
...
If I remove 'abstract' it compiles fine.
What am I doing wrong?
`abstract' keyword is VS2005 feature (C++/CLI, to be exact).
I'm not sure it's available in VS2003.NET.
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