• IDispatch
    IDispatch is the interface that exposes the OLE Automation protocol. Extending IUnknown, it is one of the standard interfaces that can be exposed by COM...
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  • OLE Automation
    languages on Windows. All automation objects are required to implement the IDispatch interface. It provides an infrastructure whereby applications called automation...
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  • Late binding
    called. In COM programming a late-bound method call is performed using the IDispatch interface. Some COM-based languages such as Visual Basic 6 have syntactical...
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  • Component Object Model
    call. Dispatching, a.k.a. late bound access, is provided by implementing IDispatch. Dispatching allows access from a wider range of programming contexts...
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  • IUnknown
    is the base interface for Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) objects. IDispatch - This interface provides name-based dynamic method dispatch for OLE Automation...
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  • IBM System Object Model
    available to OLE2 applications by either late binding bridge (based on IDispatch) or COM interfaces having higher performance. In essence, SOM classes...
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  • C Sharp 4.0
    WriteLine(string) Dynamic lookup is performed using three distinct mechanisms: COM IDispatch for COM objects, IDynamicMetaObjectProvider DLR interface for objects...
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  • Variant type (COM)
    variable must be of object type, or a variant. In OLE Automation the IDispatch interface is used when the class of an object cannot be known in advance...
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