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dual
Identifies an interface that exposes properties and methods through IDispatch and directly through the VTBL.
Allowed on
Interface
Comments
The interface must be compatible with OLE Automation and derive from IDispatch. Not allowed on dispinterfaces.
The dual attribute creates an interface that is both a Dispatch interface and a Component Object Model (COM) interface. The first seven
entries of the VTBL for a dual interface are the seven members of IDispatch, and the remaining entries are OLE COM entries for direct access to members
of the dual interface. All the parameters and return types specified for members
of a dual interface must be OLE Automation-compatible types.
All members of a dual interface must pass an HRESULT as the function return value. Members that need
to return other values should specify the last parameter as [retval, out] indicating an output parameter that returns the value of the function. In
addition, members that need to support multiple locales should pass an lcid parameter.
A dual interface provides for both the speed of direct VTBL binding and the
flexibility of IDispatch binding. For this reason, dual interfaces are recommended whenever possible.
Note If your application accesses object data by casting the THIS pointer within
the interface call, you should check the VTBL pointers in the object against
your own VTBL pointers to ensure that you are connected to the appropriate proxy.
Specifying dual on an interface implies that the interface is compatible with OLE Automation,
and therefore causes both the TYPEFLAG_FDUAL and TYPEFLAG_FOLEAUTOMATION flags
to be set.
Flags
TYPEFLAG_FDUAL, TYPEFLAG_FOLEAUTOMATION
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