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    I have a customer using Excel2000; and they want to pass an array of VARIANT data types (pass by VARIANT*) to a DotNet C# middleware, which also needs to pass VARIANT / VARIANT* back into C space.

     

    So what is the best way to pass VARIANT / VARIANT* between C# and C?  Your help is much appreciated.

     

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    Kenneth

    2008年10月22日 上午 06:52
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    *Marshal the C VARIANT* to object[] in managed C#

    The managed client uses the RCW to consume the native COM server. By default the tool TlbImp does not know what the COM Server mean by VARIANT*, so it will be marshaled as object. Since we want the VARIANT* to represent a VARIANT array, I think we can customize the RCW to marshal the data as IntPtr type. With the IntPtr variable in C#, we can call Marshal. GetObjectsForNativeVariants() function to get an array of C# objects.

     

    To customize the RCW, please refer this document http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/3bwc828w.aspx

    And you can get more information about the GetObjectsForNativeVariants() function in this document

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.runtime.interopservices.marshal.getobjectsfornativevariants.aspx

     

    *Marshal the object[] back to VARIANT* in C

    We can put all elements in the object[] array into an instance of CollectionBase type, then the CCW will automatically marshal the CollectionBase instance to an VARIANT* type variable.

     

     

    2008年11月2日 上午 06:31
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