I'm going from VS 6.0 to VS .NET 2003. I'm converting a project and can't
get it to compile. I've created a small Win32 console app that reproduces
the compiler error. This has got to be something dumb. Please help.

#import <msxml.dll>

int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
IXMLDOMDocumentPtr Xml;
Xml->createElement(_T("Tagname"));
return 0;
}

The compiler error is:
error C2660: 'IXMLDOMDocument::createElement' : function does not take 1
arguments

When I go to the definition of createElement, it shows three types:
inline IXMLDOMElementPtr IXMLDOMDocument::createElement ( _bstr_t tagName )
inline IXMLElementPtr IXMLDocument::createElement ( const _variant_t &
vType, const _variant_t & var1 )
inline IXMLElement2Ptr IXMLDocument2::createElement ( const _variant_t &
vType, const _variant_t & var1 )

IntelliSense shows the first one only, which is what I want to use. What am
I missing on the #import or is there something else I'm supposed to do? If
I have to use the second declaration of createElement, I don't know what
vType and var1 should be set to.

Okay, I think I figured it out. I had to add MSXML namespace scope to my
declaration.
i.e.
MSXML::IXMLDOMDocumentPtr Xml;
....

It seems that if I don't do that, then methods there are collisions and the
compiler chooses, I suspect, the entries in msxml.h instead of the msxml.tlh
and msxml.tli files.

"Leo" <lviolette_at_orrtax_com> wrote in message
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> I'm going from VS 6.0 to VS .NET 2003. I'm converting a project and can't
> get it to compile. I've created a small Win32 console app that reproduces
> the compiler error. This has got to be something dumb. Please help.
>
> #import <msxml.dll>
>
> int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
> {
> IXMLDOMDocumentPtr Xml;
> Xml->createElement(_T("Tagname"));
> return 0;
> }
>
> The compiler error is:
> error C2660: 'IXMLDOMDocument::createElement' : function does not take 1
> arguments
>
> When I go to the definition of createElement, it shows three types:
> inline IXMLDOMElementPtr IXMLDOMDocument::createElement ( _bstr_t
tagName )
> inline IXMLElementPtr IXMLDocument::createElement ( const _variant_t &
> vType, const _variant_t & var1 )
> inline IXMLElement2Ptr IXMLDocument2::createElement ( const _variant_t &
> vType, const _variant_t & var1 )
>
> IntelliSense shows the first one only, which is what I want to use. What
am
> I missing on the #import or is there something else I'm supposed to do?
If
> I have to use the second declaration of createElement, I don't know what
> vType and var1 should be set to.
>
>