Recieiving an arrray from VB

Hello,

I have a c++ program that passes information to a VB dll both in .net

Currently I get back a _bstr_t value for a single string. What I would
like to do is get back an array of strings from VB in order to account
for large amounts of data.

My questions are as follows

How do I define my return value as an array in c++ so that I define my
return value properly?

Since Im a c and c++ programmer I have only ever done arrays that call
a dll in the same language and as such Im used to having to define a
structure in the calling program that is also defined in the dll and I
pass back the address of the structure to the calling program from the
dll

Would my array still be defined as a _bstr_t or would it be defined
differently?

Will the returned array be in VB format that I will have to convert to
c strings?

Is it better to get back a string and parse through the string and
create my array on the c++ side?

Also the reverse is also in question - How do I pass an array to VB.

I have seen several examples of sending information to c++ from VB but
nothing really on sending information to VB from c++ where I get an
array returned

Can someone help me better understand this process?

Thanks
Jake

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