"Anurag Shukla" <anushuks@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
>
> I have to make a call to an ActiveX component from C#. The ActiveX
> call expects a VARIANT *. I keep getting an exception (COMException)
> "type Mismatch" on making the call.
>
> The call I made was
>
> {
> Object Obj = new Object();
> ActiveXCall(ref Obj); // Gives "Type mismatch" at run time ,
> // ActiveXCall expects "VARIANT *"
>
> }
>
>
> If I call the same ActiveX component from VB, I can make successful
> calls to the ActiveX by passing Variant as parameter.
>
> I am new to C#, please let me know if I am doing something wrong..
>
>
> regards
> Anurag

> I have to make a call to an ActiveX component from C#. The ActiveX
> call expects a VARIANT *. I keep getting an exception (COMException)
> "type Mismatch" on making the call.

> If I call the same ActiveX component from VB, I can make successful
> calls to the ActiveX by passing Variant as parameter.

"Anurag Shukla" <anushuks@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:3ba2dbd3.0312312318.69b20d19@posting.google.com...
> Hi all,
>
> I have to make a call to an ActiveX component from C#. The ActiveX
> call expects a VARIANT *. I keep getting an exception (COMException)
> "type Mismatch" on making the call.
>
> The call I made was
>
> {
> Object Obj = new Object();
> ActiveXCall(ref Obj); // Gives "Type mismatch" at run time ,
> // ActiveXCall expects "VARIANT *"
>
> }
>
>
> If I call the same ActiveX component from VB, I can make successful
> calls to the ActiveX by passing Variant as parameter.
>
> I am new to C#, please let me know if I am doing something wrong..
>
>
> regards
> Anurag