I have made up a contrived example show the problem I am having. I have some
ReadOnly interfaces:
Public Interface IROPerson
ReadOnly Property FirstName() As String
ReadOnly Property LastName() As String
ReadOnly Property Friends() As IROPersons
End Interface
Public Interface IROPersons
Function Count() As Integer
Function GetEnumerator() As System.Collecti ons.IEnumerator
Function Item(ByVal Index As Integer) As IROPerson
End Interface
On the project Assembly page, I have checked "Make Com Visible". All is
fine so far.
In a new Project, I define the R/W versions. Won't bother you with the
Person class, but here is the 'Persons' class:
Public Class Persons
Implements System.Collecti ons.IEnumerable
Implements ROInterfaces.IR OPersons
Private _Persons As New System.Collecti ons.Generic.Lis t(Of Person)
Public Sub Add(ByVal p As Person)
_Persons.Add(p)
End Sub
Public Function Item(ByVal Index As Integer) As Person
Return _Persons(Index)
End Function
Public Function GetEnumerator() As System.Collecti ons.IEnumerator
Implements _
System.Collecti ons.IEnumerable .GetEnumerator, _
ROInterfaces.IR OPersons.GetEnu merator
Return _Persons.GetEnu merator
End Function
Public Function Count() As Integer Implements
ROInterfaces.IR OPersons.Count
Return _Persons.Count
End Function
Public Function Item1(ByVal Index As Integer) As ROInterfaces.IR OPerson
Implements _
ROInterfaces.IR OPersons.Item
Return Item(Index)
End Function
End Class
Still so good so far.
I then have a 'Wrapper' then instanciates 'People' who derive from Person.
The wrapper hands back to the 'client' (VB6, VBA, .Net) an IROPerson
reference to a 'Person'.
No problem with a .Net client, but a VB6 client can not 'enumerate' the
'Friends' list of the 'Person'. It's visible, it can go through it with
For...Next Loop but it can't use a For...Each loop.
I have discovered by trial and error, that if I make the "Persons" class a
com class, it works! The client still holds no reference to the com visible
"Persons" class, but somehow this makes 'enumeration' work in the client.
So my question is .... Why?
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Terry 3 2470
Hi Terry,
Based on my understanding, the ComClassAttribu te only helps you to reduce
the necessary code when you need to fine control the GUIDs, define the
interface type, etc. It will not help you implement a necessary interface
that you need to implement to support For...Each enumeration in VB6 or
vbscript: a method with DISPID_NEWENUM (-4).
Here's the code that works in VB6:
Public Interface IROPerson
ReadOnly Property FirstName() As String
ReadOnly Property LastName() As String
ReadOnly Property Friends() As IROPersons
End Interface
Public Interface IROPersons
Function Count() As Integer
<DispId(-4)_
Function GetEnumerator() As System.Collecti ons.IEnumerator
<DispId(0)_
Function Item(ByVal Index As Integer) As IROPerson
End Interface
Public Class Test
Public Function Test() As Person
Dim p As New Person
Dim p2 As New Person
p.AddFriend(p2)
Return p
End Function
End Class
<ClassInterface (ClassInterface Type.None)_
Public Class Person
Implements IROPerson
Private m_FirstName As String
Private m_Friends As New Persons
Private m_LastName As String
Friend Sub AddFriend(ByVal f As Person)
m_Friends.Add(f )
End Sub
Public ReadOnly Property FirstName() As String Implements
IROPerson.First Name
Get
Return m_FirstName
End Get
End Property
Public ReadOnly Property Friends() As IROPersons Implements
IROPerson.Frien ds
Get
Return m_Friends
End Get
End Property
Public ReadOnly Property LastName() As String Implements
IROPerson.LastN ame
Get
Return m_LastName
End Get
End Property
End Class
<ClassInterface (ClassInterface Type.None)_
Public Class Persons
Implements IROPersons
Implements System.Collecti ons.IEnumerable
Private _Persons As New System.Collecti ons.Generic.Lis t(Of Person)
Public Sub Add(ByVal p As Person)
_Persons.Add(p)
End Sub
Public Function Item(ByVal Index As Integer) As Person
Return _Persons(Index)
End Function
Public Function GetEnumerator() As System.Collecti ons.IEnumerator
Implements System.Collecti ons.IEnumerable .GetEnumerator,
IROPersons.GetE numerator
Return _Persons.GetEnu merator
End Function
Public Function Count() As Integer Implements IROPersons.Coun t
Return _Persons.Count
End Function
Public Function Item1(ByVal Index As Integer) As IROPerson Implements
IROPersons.Item
Return Item(Index)
End Function
End Class
Some notes:
1. The class Persons implements two interfaces, we need to make IROPersons
the first one, this will make this the default interface of the coclass.
2. Since we intend to let the com clients to use the interfaces IROPerson
and IROPersons, we should instruct the compiler to not to generate another
class interface for the classes, hence the attribute
<ClassInterface (ClassInterface Type.None)
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Walter Wang (wa****@online. microsoft.com, remove 'online.')
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Hi Terry,
Please note that if you're not explicitly setting GUIDs for your interfaces
and classes (using GuidAttribute), the compiler will generate one for you;
and these generated GUIDs will change if you add new public
methods/properties to the interfaces. If you have checked option "Register
for COM interop" in build options, that means some invalid GUIDs are
written into registry and it might have some unexpected issues.
You can try your components on a fresh system to see if it works or not.
The recommended approach is to use GuidAttribute to explicitly specify
GUIDs to use; or you can use ComClassAttribu te (and the Com Class template)
to simply the code.
Regards,
Walter Wang (wa****@online. microsoft.com, remove 'online.')
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FYI:
Adam Nathan's Blog : GUID Generation and VB6 Binary Compatibility
( http://blogs.msdn.com/adam_nathan/ar.../19/56779.aspx)
This blog has complete explanation on the auto generated GUIDs.
Regards,
Walter Wang (wa****@online. microsoft.com, remove 'online.')
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