Re: [Boost-users] COM and boost::intrusive_ptr

From: Felipe Magno de Almeida (felipe.m.almeida_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-01-09 15:53:30

On 1/8/07, Trent Nelson <tnelson_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Philipp Henkel wrote:
> > I would like to discuss some code I'm using to manage COM objects with
> > intrusive_ptr.
>
> Out of interest, what's your motivation for using intrusive_ptr over the
> smart pointer facilities (via #import of your COM DLL/EXE) provided by
> Visual Studio?  I quite like the smart pointer stuff; it almost makes
> COM-related programming half tolerable.  You'd lose the benefits of
> things like IntelliSense completion for COM types if you wrolled your
> own wrapper, I would think.

Heh :)
Since IntelliSense crashes with boost.bind, most people wouldnt lose
very much :-P.

>
>         Trent.

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Felipe Magno de Almeida