When importing a type library it could be at times cumbersome to use the default namespace name. #import provides a nice option called rename_namespace. Use… [sourcecode language=’cpp’]#import “SomeTypelib.tlb” rename_namespace( “NibuNamespace” )[/sourcecode] Using no_namespace is lazy programming 😐 . Namespaces reduces name collision hence usage should be encouraged.
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MIDL “string” attribute
Sometime back I was wondering about whether there was a way to transfer our good ol’ NULL terminated strings using COM apart from using BSTR’s. That’s how I bumped into “string” attribute provided by MIDL. Here is how we use it… [sourcecode language=’cpp’]typedef [string] char NormalString[1024]; [id(1), helpstring( “Displays null terminated UNICODE strings” )] HRESULT […]
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