Win32, .Net, & COM Interoperability

[olegprog]

Dear All,
I am trying to write a C# DLL that would work with VBA (in VBA I can directly call C# dll) and relatively old Win32 application (ArcView3.x). For Win32 application I would like to use C++ Dll wrapper. It is possible to call Win32 Dlls from there. I created small test Dlls (see below). It works fine under Win 2000 but under XP Win32 application crashes without any messages while reaching CoCreateInstance(…) (see C++ code below).
Do I need to add something to C# dll code (some attributes like [ComVisible(true)])?

Below are steps I performed:

1) C# Dll code:

namespace Cs_CLR_DLL
{
public class Class1 : IClass1
public Class1() { }

public int OpenForm1()
{
// Form1 f1 = new Form1();
// f1.ShowDialog();

return 1;
}

public interface IClass1
{
int OpenForm1();
}
}

AssemblyInfo.cs:
…
[assembly: ComVisible(true)]
// [assembly: Guid("32fa638b-e5fd-4ab0-aa5f-f34d0cfc4913")]
…

Register for COM interop check box (in Properties) is checked


2) register C# dll with regasm:
regasm MyC#Dll.dll /t MyC#Dll.tlb



3) MFC VC++ Dll code:

#include "atlbase.h"
#import "Cs_CLR_DLL.tlb" no_namespace


extern "C" __declspec(dllexport)
int CallFromAV1(){
AFX_MANAGE_STATE(AfxGetStaticModuleState());

HRESULT resH;
resH = CoInitialize(NULL); //initialising COM
assert( SUCCEEDED(resH) );

CComPtr<IClass1> m_pClient;

resH = CoCreateInstance(_uuidof(Class1),NULL, CLSCTX_SERVER,
_uuidof(IClass1), (void**)&m_pClient);
assert( SUCCEEDED(resH) );

resH = m_pClient->OpenForm1();
assert( SUCCEEDED(resH) );

return resH;
}

Thank you very much in advance
Oleg