Using Variant in COM

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VC8.0

C++

COM

Hi,

I am trying to pass a VARIANT type to a COM method. I am basically using this to read an array of integer from the COM method. Unfortunately, I am stuck like hell :(

Before sending the variable, COM is initialized to an array of INT :

VARIANT *variantVariable = new VARIANT;
 ::VariantInit(variantVariable);
 variantVariable->vt     = VT_ARRAY | VT_INT;
 SAFEARRAYBOUND bounds[1];
 bounds[0].cElements = 100; // array size
 bounds[0].lLbound = 0;
 SAFEARRAY *pSafeArray = SafeArrayCreate(VT_INT,1,bounds);
 // pointer to access the data
 int *pData;
 SafeArrayAccessData(pSafeArray,reinterpret_cast<void **>(&pData));
for(Uint offset = 0; 100 > offset; ++offset)
{
   pData[offset] = -1;
}

SafeArrayUnaccessData(pSafeArray);
variantVariable->parray = pSafeArray;

I am calling the COM :

interfaceVariable->COMFUNCTION(
    variantVariable

);

On tracing the COM function, I see that variantVariable is empty. How-ever, just before calling it, it would be an array of int. I am not sure what is going wrong. Please help.