Re: IDispatch definition in C#

Phil,

>t seems to me unnecessarily hiding
>information about the variable's type.

Unless you're going to use any type specific functionality (ie
IDispatch methods) I don't see that as a problem.


> OK, I'm not trying to start a deep philosophy discussion. It just seems
>strange that Microsoft would thoughtfully prevent the definition of its core
>interfaces from being visible to .NET class designers.

They don't prevent it, you can declare and use IDispatch if you really
have a reason to. If you do, the field declaration becomes

private IDispatch m_Server;

(not IDispatch*).


Mattias

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