Help with connection points

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From: Arshad Tanveer (public_at_atanveer.com)
Date: 08/17/04 

Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 22:09:33 GMT

Hi,
I have developed a COM component using VC++/ATL, which is to be used in a
Visual Basic client. The difficulty I am facing is with a connection point.
The following is the entry in the idl file for this:

 interface _IOpmsInterfaceEvents : IUnknown
 {
  [id(1), helpstring("Method to ask questions and get answers")] HRESULT
Askquestion([in] LPOLESTR question, [out,retval] int *answer);
 };

The server will need answers to a few questions during processing, and this
it should get through a dialog based user input from the VB client program.
I am implementing this in visual basic as follows:

Private Sub obj_Askquestion(ByVal strQ As String, answer as long)
'code for bringing up the questions dialog box
End Sub

However, when I try to run this, visual basic gives me the following
message:

Compile error:
Procedure declaration does not match description of event or procedure
having the same name

Any idea what is wrong with the above code or declaration of the procedure?
I am using Visual Studio 6 for this, and being a C++ programmer am quite new
to advanced VB programming.

Thanks in advance for your help.
Regards,
Arshad Tanveer