Top "Idl" questions

IDL, short for Interface Description Language, is a language used to describe a software component's public interface in a programming-language-independent manner.

What is IDL?

What is meant by IDL? I have googled it, and found out it stands for Interface Definition Language, which is …

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How to associate constants with an interface in C#?

Some languages let you associate a constant with an interface: A Java example A PhP example The W3C abstract …

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Including a .idl file in a C++ project

I'm building a project in C++ which uses DirectShow's video capture library to connect to a camera. The video card …

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Convert Interface IDL file to C#

I have an interface defined in an IDL file that I would like to use in C#. Is there a …

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Differences between [in, out] and [out, retval] in COM IDL definitions

In some of the IDL I work with I have noticed that there are 2 conventions for marking return values in …

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Solve Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) in Python

I amtrying to translate an IDL program to Python. I have to solve the outcome from SVD which I achieve …

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How do I convert a .tlb file to headers and implementation files?

I'm trying to convert mscorlib.tlb. It normally used in C++ like this: #import "mscorlib.tlb" raw_interfaces_only \ high_…

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Notepad++ IDL Syntax Highlighting?

I was about to create a user-defined language file for Notepad++ to syntax-highlight IDL. But before I went and spent …

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What are oaidl.idl and ocidl.idl for?

A default ATL Simple Object has the following at the top of its IDL file: import "oaidl.idl"; import "ocidl.…

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