How to pass a class by reference between two dll's (COM Comp)??? or a pointer to an COM component object which is defined in some other dll to another dll??

Thanks in Advance

Regards,

ThunderBird

Are you writing both the dlls?
Is one of the dlls acting as a client and using the other as server?

If thats the case then you have to do things like define the class in the IDL of the server and give it a GUID so that any client can recognize it. etc.

Just give some more details as to what you are doing.

Ankur

Suppose there are three dll's A,B and C. I want to pass a class (X)defined in C from A to B. Something like this

From A

B->xyz (ptr to class in C)

In B I want to use functions defined in the class X.

Any ides??

Is it possible to transfer ptr to non native data types across com components.

Is it a perticular requirement that you define the class in a separate enitiy (DLL C). Why not simply define it in A and pass it to B.

There may be other solutions to you problem like use of monikers where you can create an instance only once and share it among apps but I'm still not sure what you r trying to do.

Hi Ankur,

Can we pass and use the Interface pointer of one COM to other COM component. If yes please let me know how to achive this. I believe we can pass something like this

A->xyz(IC** S)

XYZ(IC** S)
{
}
Is it correct and now how to use it to access functions in S.

Thanks in Advance

Regards,

ThunderBird

See to do this you dont have to do anything just treat one of the COM dlls as server and do CoCreateInstance from the client DLL for server's primary interface and then access anyother interface defined in it using QueryInterface .

If you need to PASS a pointer thats possible too becuase your client DLL will be able to recognize the interface thats being passed as long as it is duely defined in the server DLL just like the other interfaces.

Regards
Ankur Verma