I am attempting to write a component in C# to be consumed by classic ASP that allows me to access the indexer of the component (aka default property).
For example:
C# component:
public class MyCollection {
public string this[string key] {
get { /* return the value associated with key */ }
}
public void Add(string key, string value) {
/* add a new element */
}
}
ASP consumer:
Dim collection
Set collection = Server.CreateObject("MyCollection ")
Call collection.Add("key", "value")
Response.Write(collection("key")) ' should print "value"
Is there an attribute I need to set, do I need to implement an interface or do I need to do something else? Or this not possible via COM Interop?
The purpose is that I am attempting to create test doubles for some of the built-in ASP objects such as Request, which make use of collections using these default properties (such as Request.QueryString("key")). Alternative suggestions are welcome.
Update: I asked a follow-up question: Why is the indexer on my .NET component not always accessible from VBScript?
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Try setting the DispId attribute of the property to be 0, as described here in the MSDN documentation.
Mike Henry : Thanks, this got it working but not on this[string key]. I had to apply DispId to another property before it worked.Mike Henry : Oops, it appears applying DispId to the indexer, e.g. this[string key], does work if it's not overloaded. -
Thanks to Rob Walker's tip, I got it working by adding the following method and attribute to MyCollection:
[DispId(0)] public string Item(string key) { return this[key]; }Edit: See this better solution which uses an indexer.
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Here is a better solution that uses an indexer rather than an
Itemmethod:public class MyCollection { private NameValueCollection _collection; [DispId(0)] public string this[string name] { get { return _collection[name]; } set { _collection[name] = value; } } }It can be used from ASP like:
Dim collection Set collection = Server.CreateObject("MyCollection") collection("key") = "value" Response.Write(collection("key")) ' should print "value"Note: I could not get this to work earlier because I had overloaded the indexer,
this[string name], withthis[int index].
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