Interop: C# to VB6

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I'm trying to pass "missing" to an optional string argument in a VB6 COM DLL but it is giving me "cannot convert from 'object' to 'string'".

In simplified form, I'm calling from C# using:

object o = someFunction(System.Type.Missing)

In VB6, this function is declared as:

Public Function someFunction(Optional ByVal arg As String = "Default")
.
.
.
End Function

I can pass in the string "Default" to get the behaviour I want but I would prefer to pass missing so that I always use the default parameter value defined in the VB6 DLL.

Can I just cast "missing" to a string to fool the compiler or is there some more subtle way of doing this?

Posted 10-Aug-10 0:26am

alan.cooper

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Christian Graus · Answer 1 · 2010-08-10T00:29:00

Solution 1

I doubt it. You'd be better not using VB6 at all, what with it being obsolete for a decade. You could try null, I guess, but if it can't handle you calling the method with no parameters, I can't imagine C# having any design given to running against VB6.

Posted 10-Aug-10 0:29am

Christian Graus

Goutam Patra · Answer 2 · 2010-08-10T02:20:00

Solution 2

I never used a VB dll in .Net. But I guess a string type in .Net is not just a string type like in VB6. It is a object type, it holds other properties also. May thats the reasom why its showing such a error.

Posted 10-Aug-10 2:20am

Goutam Patra

Updated 10-Aug-10 2:33am

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