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ICreateTypeLib::CreateTypeInfo (Windows Embedded CE 6.0)

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1/6/2010

This method creates a new type description instance within the type library.

Syntax

HRESULT CreateTypeInfo( 
  OLECHAR FAR* szName, 
  TYPEKIND tkind, 
  ICreateTypeInfo FAR* FAR* ppCTInfo
);

Parameters

  • szName
    [in] Null-terminated string that contains the name of the new type.
  • tkind
    [in] TYPEKIND of the type description to be created.
  • ppCTInfo
    [out] On return, pointer to the type description.

Return Value

The following table shows the return values for this function.

Value Description

S_OK

Success.

STG_E_INSUFFICIENTMEMORY

Out of memory.

E_OUTOFMEMORY

Out of memory.

E_INVALIDARG

One or more of the parameters is invalid.

TYPE_E_INVALIDSTATE

The state of the type library is not valid for this operation.

TYPE_E_NAMECONFLICT

The provided name is not unique.

TYPE_E_WRONGTYPEKIND

Type mismatch.

Remarks

Use CreateTypeInfo to create a new type description instance within the library. An error is returned if the specified name already appears in the library.

To get the type information of the type description that is being created, call IUnknown::QueryInterface (IID_ITypeInfo, ...) on the returned ICreateTypeInfo. This type information can be used by other type descriptions that reference it by using ICreateTypeInfo::AddRefTypeInfo.

Requirements

Header oaidl.h, oaidl.idl
Library oleaut32.lib, uuid.lib
Windows Embedded CE Windows CE 2.0 and later

See Also

Reference

ICreateTypeLib
ICreateTypeInfo
ICreateTypeInfo::AddRefTypeInfo
TYPEKIND
IUnknown::QueryInterface