Reading File with COM Object

[Mannie]

Hi!
In my C++ application I use a COM Object (written in C#). When I try to call one of the methods (that tries to read settings from configuration file) I get a nasty error -0x7c812a5b (unfortunately it's hard to debug COM objects).

My c# method looks as follows:
public string ReadConfigValue ()
{
System.Configur ation.Configura tion config =
ConfigurationMa nager.OpenExeCo nfiguration(Con figurationUserL evel.None);
AppSettingsSect ion appSettingSecti on =
(AppSettingsSec tion)config.Get Section("connec tionStrings");
string strConfig = appSettingSecti on.SectionInfor mation.GetRawXm l();
return strConfig;
}
My c++ code looks as follows:
char * strConfigConten t =_com_util::Con vertBSTRToStrin g(_com_ptr->ReadConfigValu e());

I think there may be some problems with treads during reading a content of a file (because when I delete a section "connectionStri ngs" I get an empty string).

How can I solve this problem??

[weaknessforcats]

I assume this is a BSTR?? Yes?

_com_ptr->ReadConfigValu e()

The C++ call looks OK if that is a BSTR. I assume you delete the return from ConvertBSTRToSt ring() at some later point.

The rest is in C# so I am moving this to the.NET forum for now. If the C# looks OK, then a .NET moderator needs to move this back to the C++ forum.