March 2002
Intermediate to advanced
864 pages
31h 8m
English
Just as an RCW proxy wraps a COM object when you access it from C#, code that accesses a C# object as a COM object must do so through a proxy as well. When your C# object is marshaled out to COM, the runtime creates a COM Callable Wrapper (CCW). The CCW follows the same lifetime rules as other COM objects, and as long as it is alive, a CCW maintains a traceable reference to the object it wraps. This keeps the object alive when the garbage collector is run.
The following example shows how you can export both a class and an interface
from C# and control the Global Unique Identifiers (GUIDs) and Dispatch IDs
(DISPIDs) assigned. After compiling IRunInfo and
StackSnapshot, you can
register both using RegAsm.exe.
// IRunInfo.cs
// Compile with:
// csc /t:library IRunInfo.cs
using System;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
[GuidAttribute("aa6b10a2-dc4f-4a24-ae5e-90362c2142c1")]
public interface IRunInfo {
[DispId(1)]
string GetRunInfo();
}
// StackSnapshot.cs
// compile with csc /t:library /r:IRunInfo.dll StackSnapShot.cs
using System;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using System.Diagnostics;
[GuidAttribute("b72ccf55-88cc-4657-8577-72bd0ff767bc")]
public class StackSnapshot : IRunInfo {
public StackSnapshot() {
st = new StackTrace();
}
[DispId(1)]
public string GetRunInfo() {
return st.ToString();
}
private StackTrace st;
}