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Understanding Custom Marshaling Part 1

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Learn the fundamental principles of COM custom marshaling by code examples.
// BasicSample01InterfacesImpl.cpp : Implementation of DLL Exports.

#include "stdafx.h"
#include "resource.h"
#include "BasicSample01InterfacesImpl.h"

#include "BasicSample01Interfaces_i.c"

class CBasicSample01InterfacesImplModule : public CAtlDllModuleT< CBasicSample01InterfacesImplModule >
{
public :
	DECLARE_LIBID(LIBID_BasicSample01InterfacesImplLib)
	DECLARE_REGISTRY_APPID_RESOURCEID(IDR_BASICSAMPLE01INTERFACESIMPL, "{C527414B-E8E9-4DE7-BAE3-1BB2177843B6}")
};

CBasicSample01InterfacesImplModule _AtlModule;


// DLL Entry Point
extern "C" BOOL WINAPI DllMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, DWORD dwReason, LPVOID lpReserved)
{
	hInstance;
    return _AtlModule.DllMain(dwReason, lpReserved); 
}


// Used to determine whether the DLL can be unloaded by OLE
STDAPI DllCanUnloadNow(void)
{
    return _AtlModule.DllCanUnloadNow();
}


// Returns a class factory to create an object of the requested type
STDAPI DllGetClassObject(REFCLSID rclsid, REFIID riid, LPVOID* ppv)
{
    return _AtlModule.DllGetClassObject(rclsid, riid, ppv);
}


// DllRegisterServer - Adds entries to the system registry
STDAPI DllRegisterServer(void)
{
    // registers object, typelib and all interfaces in typelib
    HRESULT hr = _AtlModule.DllRegisterServer();
	return hr;
}


// DllUnregisterServer - Removes entries from the system registry
STDAPI DllUnregisterServer(void)
{
	HRESULT hr = _AtlModule.DllUnregisterServer();
	return hr;
}

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Written By
Systems Engineer NEC
Singapore Singapore
Lim Bio Liong is a Specialist at a leading Software House in Singapore.

Bio has been in software development for over 10 years. He specialises in C/C++ programming and Windows software development.

Bio has also done device-driver development and enjoys low-level programming. Bio has recently picked up C# programming and has been researching in this area.

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