[Mono-dev] BSTR Patch

[Rafael Teixeira]

On 5/1/06, Jonathan S. Chambers <Jonathan.Chambers at ansys.com> wrote:
> Here's the first of some COM Interop patches; this one adds BSTR support (on Windows only).

Nice

> I'll send some test patches too, if someone could tell me whether they should be part of some current test or a new one.
>


> On platforms other than Windows the BSTR related methods currently g_error (this was the old code). Should I throw a NotSupported/NotImplemented exception instead?
>

What is the XPCOM equivalent? I remember been using BSTRs a lot in my
COM days, so that not having something to map it outside Windows may
turn down lots of interesting interoperation scenarios, that may be
made cross-platform.

> Thanks,
> Jonathan

:)

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