I'm having a problem exposing a method from .NET to COM (specifically VB).

I had a pre-existing .NET Assembly that I needed to expose to COM. So
I created an explicit interface for the classes and methods I wanted to
expose, and then had my existing .NET classes implement them (pretty much
I let VS.NET stub out my "implements" routines and then forwarded the calls
to my existing routines). I used ClassInterface(ClassInterfaceType.None)
on my classes to force the use of the interfaces.

Now here's the problem. While my simple read-only propertys seem to work,
I tried calling a method that takes in an array of objects and the VB6
environment balked with an "unsupported type" error at compile time (plus
that method's signiture had no "intellisense").

Here's the interface method:

<DispIdAttribute(1)> _
Function CreateFile(ByVal DbfDir As String, _
ByVal DbfTitle As String, _
ByVal FieldDefs() As IFieldDefinition) _
As IFile

Here's the TypeLib info:

[id(0x00000001)]
HRESULT CreateFile(
[in] BSTR DbfDir,
[in] BSTR DbfTitle,
[in] SAFEARRAY(IFieldDefinition*) FieldDefs,
[out, retval] IFile** pRetVal);

I can't see the problem. Any help is appreciated!
Tom

PS - I posted this in the Interop forum before, but it seems pretty quite
there. I apologize for the semi-cross-posting.

Got past that one too. The array needed to be passed ByRef not ByVal...

(E-Mail Removed) (tcarvin) wrote in message news:<(E-Mail Removed)>...
> I'm having a problem exposing a method from .NET to COM (specifically VB).
>
> I had a pre-existing .NET Assembly that I needed to expose to COM. So
> I created an explicit interface for the classes and methods I wanted to
> expose, and then had my existing .NET classes implement them (pretty much
> I let VS.NET stub out my "implements" routines and then forwarded the calls
> to my existing routines). I used ClassInterface(ClassInterfaceType.None)
> on my classes to force the use of the interfaces.
>
> Now here's the problem. While my simple read-only propertys seem to work,
> I tried calling a method that takes in an array of objects and the VB6
> environment balked with an "unsupported type" error at compile time (plus
> that method's signiture had no "intellisense").
>
> Here's the interface method:
>
> <DispIdAttribute(1)> _
> Function CreateFile(ByVal DbfDir As String, _
> ByVal DbfTitle As String, _
> ByVal FieldDefs() As IFieldDefinition) _
> As IFile
>
> Here's the TypeLib info:
>
> [id(0x00000001)]
> HRESULT CreateFile(
> [in] BSTR DbfDir,
> [in] BSTR DbfTitle,
> [in] SAFEARRAY(IFieldDefinition*) FieldDefs,
> [out, retval] IFile** pRetVal);
>
> I can't see the problem. Any help is appreciated!
> Tom
>
> PS - I posted this in the Interop forum before, but it seems pretty quite
> there. I apologize for the semi-cross-posting.