Having done this myself, I can attest that it works; however, it's not something you can easily integrate into your build process for whenever you need to re-gen your interop assembly for whatever reason. I would recommend using the second option in the article, and write the interop assembly code yourself in C#.
Greg Reinacker Reinacker & Associates, Inc. http://www.rassoc.com http://www.rassoc.com/gregr/weblog/ -----Original Message----- From: The DOTNET list will be retired 7/1/02 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Willy Denoyette Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 2:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to call C++ COM object from C# Kenneth, Yes, there is a way to do this, but you need to hack the Interop Assembly (IL). Take a look at following KB article Q305990 for details: Willy. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kenneth Kasajian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 4:43 PM Subject: [DOTNET] How to call C++ COM object from C# > I have the following method in a COM object that I currently call from > another unmanaged C++ client. Two of its parameters are as follows: > > // Number of entries > [in] long Count, > > // Array of IDs > [in, size_is(Count)] LONG * pList, > > When I import the associated TLB into C#, the size_is parameter is gone. > Is there a way to call this function from C# or do I have to wrap it? > > > I also have another method where the parameters are like this: > // Number of entries > [out] short *pCount, > > // Array of IDs > [out, size_is( , *pCount ) ] LONG **ppList, > > Can this be called from C#? > > If so, how? > > You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or > subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com. > You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com. You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.
