Visual Basic .NET Code Sample

Within Visual Studio .NET, select Project

Add Reference.... This brings up a dialog. Select the COM tab, then Browse, and change the path to the idlexfoo.dll. This imports the object reference into the project.

Within the project that will use the wrapper object, include the following line at the top of the form:

Imports IDLexFooLib

Initiation Without Parameters in Visual Basic .NET

Use the following code to initialize the object with no parameters.

Private Sub Button1_Click(...)  
  
   Dim oFoo As New IDLexFooClass()  
  
   Try  
      oFoo.CreateObject(0, 0, 0)  
   Catch ex As Exception  
      Debug.WriteLine(oFoo.GetLastError())  
      Return  
   End Try  
  
   ' use object here...  
  
End Sub

Initiation with Parameters in Visual Basic .NET

Use the following code to initialize the object with its three parameters (a string, a 32-bit long value, and an array that has two rows and three columns, containing 32-bit long values).

Inside the Public Class definition for the form and before any subroutines, you must add the following two lines:

Const PARMFLAG_CONST As Integer = &H1  
Const PARMFLAG_CONV_MAJORITY As Integer = &H4000

Then create the object within your program:

Private Sub Button1_Click(...)  
  
   Dim oFoo As New IDLexFooClass  
  
   Dim parmStr As String = "I am a string parameter"  
   Dim parmVal As Int32 = 24  
   Dim parmArr As Int32(,) = {{10, 11, 12}, {20, 21, 22}}  
  
   Dim argc As Int32 = 3  
   Dim argval As Object() = {parmStr, parmVal, parmArr}  
   Dim argpal As Int32() = {PARMFLAG_CONST, PARMFLAG_CONST, _  
      (PARMFLAG_CONST + PARMFLAG_CONV_MAJORITY)}  
  
   Try  
      oFoo.CreateObject(argc, argval, argpal)  
   Catch ex As Exception  
      Debug.WriteLine(oFoo.GetLastError())  
      Return  
   End Try  
  
   ' use object here...  
  
End Sub

IDL Online Help (March 06, 2007)