My first attempts at this have failed but I'm hoping it is possible. If I have a class like this that is COM registered:
[ComVisible(true)]
public interface Resolver
{
object Resolve(string type);
}
[ProgId("ClassResolver")]
[ClassInterface(ClassInterfaceType.None)]
[ComVisible(true)]
[Guid("53DB4409-0827-471D-94CE-2601D691D04C")]
public class Class1:Resolver
{
public object Resolve(string type)
{
return (ClassLibrary2.Interface1) new ClassLibrary2.Class1();
}
}
Can I use it to return Class2.Interface1 which is ComVisible but not registered (it's in a different library):
[ComVisible(true)]
public interface Interface1
{
string SomeMethod();
}
public class Class1:Interface1
{
public string SomeMethod()
{
MessageBox.Show("SomeMethod");
return "SomeMethod";
}
}
My first attempts have returned the error: IUnknown:SomeMethod (No exported method), but I'm hoping there might be some trick to doing this that I don't know.
I found this is possible if you mark the class as ComVisible (just the interface as ComVisible wasn't enough). I can now use ClassLibrary3 via COM. See below code:
namespace ClassLibrary1
{
[ComVisible(true)]
public interface Resolver
{
object Resolve(string type);
}
[ProgId("ClassResolver2")]
[ClassInterface(ClassInterfaceType.None)]
[ComVisible(true)]
[Guid("83720331-12CB-48E1-947C-2413F7B9AB89")]
public class Class1:Resolver
{
public object Resolve(string type)
{
return new ClassLibrary3.Class1();
}
}
}
Totally separate library that was not "Regasm"ed:
namespace ClassLibrary3
{
[ComVisible(true)]
public class Class1
{
public string SomeMethod()
{
MessageBox.Show("ClassLibrary3.Class1.SomeMethod....");
return "ClassLibrary3.Class1.SomeMethod";
}
}
}