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5-Jul-04 21:44

Hi All,

I want to use a COM dll.
So I am first calling CoInitialize();
Then #import "Dll path" no_namespace
Then I am declaring the required inteface pointer and then calling CoCreateInstance();

But the compiler give me an error saying the interface is undelcared. But it generates the .tlh and .tli files in my debug directory of the project. And I think .tlh file conatains all definations. So ow what is wrong in my approach?
Do I need any .h file also in addition to .dll. Confused | :confused:

Please reply early.

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Vaibhav...

Roger Stoltz5-Jul-04 22:13

Roger Stoltz

5-Jul-04 22:13

Add the attribute "named_guids" to your #import directive.
Otherwise identifiers for interfaces and CLSID such as "IMyInterface" are undefined.

--
Roger

Vaibhav...5-Jul-04 22:28

Vaibhav...

5-Jul-04 22:28

Roger,

I did that...
#import "D:\Firewall Settings\IMP Files\hnetcfg.dll" no_namespace named_guids

still getting the same error..

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Vaibhav...

Roger Stoltz6-Jul-04 0:27

Roger Stoltz

6-Jul-04 0:27

Five alternatives:

1. Verify that you are using IID_IMyInterface in the call to CoCreateInstance, or
2. you are using __uuidof( IMyInterface ) in the call to CoCreateInstance.
3. Check your spelling.
4. Search the .tlh file for the identifier that is undeclared and verify that it exists.
5. Do the import in stdafx.h to make the identifiers "globally" declared.

If this doesn't help I suggest you post some code showing how you are calling CoCreateInstance and the declarations of the identifiers you are trying to use from your imported library, i.e. snippets of the .tlh file.

--
Roger

Vaibhav Sanghavi11-Jul-04 23:39

11-Jul-04 23:39

Hi Roger,

First of all sorry to reply late. I was very busy in a project.
Well, when I compile with #import "Dll path".. it creates a .tli and .tlh file in my debug directory. I checked those files by opening them in VS. None of them defines INetFwProfile interface. But I want to make use of INetFwProfile which as per microsoft is in the hnetcfg.dll which I am using with #import.

As far as code is concern it goes like this..

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// HRESULT hr = S_OK;

// Initialize COM.
hr = CoInitialize(NULL);
if (SUCCEEDED(hr))
{
hr = S_OK;
fwComInitialized = TRUE;
}
else
{
printf("CoInitialize failed: 0x%08lx\n", hr);
goto error;
}

INetFwProfile* fwProfile = NULL;
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

Here I have not written Cocreateinstance() yet. Before that only its not complinig and last line give errors as mentioned below.

error C2065: 'INetFwProfile' : undeclared identifier
error C2065: 'fwProfile' : undeclared identifier
error C2106: '=' : left operand must be l-value

Does it mean hnetcfg.dll does not contain INetFwProfile. As far I know .dll contains only implementation and when you compile .tlh gets created with contains the declaration of the interface.

Do I have to include any .h also or have to give path of any other file in Include directories from Options in VC++ 6 compiler. I dont thinks so...

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Vaibhav...

Roger Stoltz12-Jul-04 14:52

Roger Stoltz

12-Jul-04 14:52

Well...
The errors are expected since the interface is not declared.
I've tried to import hnetcfg.dll but there is no interface called INetFwProfile in my library either.

I browsed MSDN at the net and found the following link:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/ics/ics/inetfwprofile.asp[^]
The article tells me that WinXP SP2 is required, do you have it?
Furthermore the article says that the interface is declared in a header file called netfw.h, which I presume is shipped with VC7 which I don't have. I'm running VC6 and I can't find that header file.
The article doesn't say anything about hnetcfg.dll. Where did you get the information that the interface could be found in this library?

The bottom line is that you are looking for the interface in the wrong place. Or maybe you're looking at the right place but the library is an older version that doesn't contain the interface you're after.
Either way I cannot help you since I cannot find any information that confirms any of this.

--
Roger

Vaibhav Sanghavi12-Jul-04 18:55

12-Jul-04 18:55

Roger,

Things are crystle clear now..
Go though this link http://blogs.tonygoodhew.com/xpsp2/archive/2004/05/19/269.aspx

In the third paragraph of this article it is said that either you can use dll by importing it or create .h and .tlb files using midl.exe. I prefered the formal over later. But the dll is not availbale with this PSDK. So I took the dll form a machine whre XP SP2 was installed.

But now I got the concept. That dll is just contains the core objects required to manipulate the firewall. But one requires Firewall manager also (which I thought would be in that dll only) which deals with that dll objects. Now this manager is defined in netfw.h. So later I went for the second approach and created netfw.h file from netfw.idl using midl.exe and used it in my project. Its working fine now.

As you said it required XP SP2. Ya but that is only for the client machine. i.e. the taget of the software must be a XP SP2. The developement machine could be any thing on which you have installed PSDK. I had already used the link you gave me for the reference in my project since that is only source for reference.

So the bottom line is either I couldn't get the exact meaning of the 3rd paragraph of the link I mentioned above or that link does not explain well.

Anyway, thank you for taking interest in my problem.

Have a nice day!

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Vaibhav...

MSHFlexgrid ~ custom Autoresize

Michael P Butler6-Jul-04 1:17

Michael P Butler

6-Jul-04 1:17

Vaibhav Sanghavi wrote:
Then #import "Dll path" no_namespace
Then I am declaring the required inteface pointer and then calling CoCreateInstance();

I'm curious to know why you are using #import but not making use of the generated Smart Pointer interface.

I find it easier to use the smart pointers.

e.g

<br />
#import "craxdrt.tlb" no_namespace named_guids <br />
<br />
<br />
IApplicationPtr m_Application;<br />
<br />
HRESULT hr = m_Application.CreateInstance(__uuidof(Application));<br />
<br />
m_Application->OpenReport(reportName);<br />
<br />

Michael

CP Blog [^]

V.5-Jul-04 21:27

5-Jul-04 21:27

Hi,

I'm using MSHFlexgrid and I need to use a "custom" autoresize.
* if the text is to long to fit in the cell cut off the text and put "partoftext..." in the cell. if the user clicks on the cell he will, off course, see the whole cell.

My first idea was to get the width of the cell (OK) and the width of the text (GetCellFontWidth() ?) and then work from there (I do keep in mind that one is in twips and the other in points)

problem is that m_flexArray.GetCellFontWidth(); always returns 0.00000

m_flexArray.GetCellFontSize(); does returns a value, but in cases of Times New Roman and stuff it doesn't do me any good does it?

can anybody give me any clues on how to solve this?

(yes, it's not really an autoresize Wink | ;)

)

tnx for your help!!

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inheritance

xcavin5-Jul-04 21:11

xcavin

5-Jul-04 21:11

class A
{
public:
virtual fun();
}
class B:A
{
public:
fun();
}
main()
{
B b;
b.fun();// this will call class B's function.

//But i want to call function fun() of class A with the same object ( of B).
//any way ??
}

Re: inheritance

bneacetp5-Jul-04 21:45

bneacetp

5-Jul-04 21:45

xcavin wrote:
any way ??

Yep.

b.A::fun();

That should successfully call the base function. Big Grin | :-D

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Re: inheritance

Vaibhav Sanghavi5-Jul-04 21:54

registry handling in my software

5-Jul-04 21:54

Hi

You can typecast the object of B to A and call the function
So just change the last line of your code to

((A)b).fun(); // this will call class A's function.

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Vaibhav...

ask_you5-Jul-04 18:22

ask_you

5-Jul-04 18:22

i wish to make some registry entry at the time of installing my software and use the entries later in my sofware..
should i make the entries in HKEY_CURRENT_USER or HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE? basically, i want to know which is the appropriate path.

ask_you

Re: registry handling in my software

Jose Cezar S. Ynion5-Jul-04 19:09

Jose Cezar S. Ynion

5-Jul-04 19:09

It depends. If you want all users of that machine to be able to use you software then you need to saved it on HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. But if for currently logon user only, then save it to HKEY_CURRENT_USER.

Re: registry handling in my software

ask_you5-Jul-04 19:27

ask_you

5-Jul-04 19:27

Thanx..

Reading Cookies

Liger_Zero_X5-Jul-04 16:26

Liger_Zero_X

5-Jul-04 16:26

Could you please help me on this one... I have to Read Cookies along with the Contents. How will I be able to do that?! What Class/Methods are Involve?! Thanks in Advance!!! Big Grin | :-D

Jose Cezar S. Ynion5-Jul-04 17:18

Jose Cezar S. Ynion

5-Jul-04 17:18

Maybe this link will help:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;241492

Michael Dunn5-Jul-04 17:28

Michael Dunn

5-Jul-04 17:28

Use InternetGetCookie() to get the cookie string for a particular URL. It looks like "name1=value1; name2=value2" so you just have to parse it and pull out the values.

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Liger_Zero_X5-Jul-04 19:55

Liger_Zero_X

5-Jul-04 19:55

How about getting all Cookies in the Cookies Directory?! im sorry, im a noob here... thanks again!!! Big Grin | :-D