The CComSafeArray Smart SAFEARRAY Class
A Review of the COM SAFEARRAY Data Type
IDL provides several attributes for specifying arrays in COM interfaces. Attributes such as [size_is] and [length_is] enable you to adorn method definitions with information required to marshal these arrays across COM boundaries. Yet not all languages support arrays in the same way. For instance, some languages support zero-based arrays, while others require one-based arrays. Still others, such as Visual Basic, allow the application itself to decide whether the arrays it references are zero-based or one-based. Array storage varies from language to language as well: Some languages store elements in row-major order, and others use column-major order. To make the situation ...
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