RE: Visual Studio Axis Client

[Cervi, Anthony (PCLN-NW)]

in order to see the contents of a bstr* you have to dereference the pointer. you can also use _bstr_t to convert to a "regular" string. hope this helps.   void GettaBSTR(BSTR* bstr) {     *bstr = SysAllocString("some string");     printf("this is the string: %S", *bstr); }   BSTR bs; GettaBSTR(&bs); _bstr_t bst = bs; printf("this is the string: %s", (const char*) bst); std::string s = (const char*) bst; printf("this is the string: %s", s.data()); SysFreeString(bs);   -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 11:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Visual Studio Axis Client Does Anybody know how I can convert a BSTR* to a type that will output the contents of the String to the screen?   I am currently getting only what seems to be the address of the BSTR at the screen.   In a message dated 7/21/2004 5:43:55 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Are you using the MS SOAP toolkit or .NET?  Also, are you using Visual Studio 6 or 7 (.NET)? Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, >  > I am creating a client for my axis web service in Visual Studio. By > using Visual Studio to add a web reference, the program creates several > data objects of type BSTR. >  > I am wondering if anybody could give me a quick explanation why my > Strings are getting placed as BSTR's, and one is being placed as a > BSTR*. Now the BSTR* is becoming a complete obstacle because I don't > even know how to get it initialized and I can't find anything on it. >  > If somebody could give me a quick rundown of what I have to do to these > BSTR's to get them initialized with the String values and how they'll > run through axis, that'd be great. >  > Thanks in advance. > James Crosson > [EMAIL PROTECTED]