Standard Marshaling

Standard marshaling is accomplished using the Microsoft interface definition language (MIDL) compiler. Assuming that you have an interface called IMyInterface and you saved this interface in the file myinterface.idl, you can use the MIDL compiler to generate the proxy-stub code for the interface. The output of the MIDL compiler is made up of the following five files:

  • myinterface.h—A header file with the interface definition

  • myinterface_i.c—A source file with the IID constant definitions

  • myinterface_p.c—A source file with the proxy-stub code

  • dlldata.c—A source file with the proxy-stub DLL entry points

  • myinterface.tlb—The automation-capable type library to be used in type library marshaling

Listing 11.2 is a simple interface definition ...

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