com.h revision c97989161fbe75bc14cea477a5443bbf474dd3ad
/** @file
*
* MS COM / XPCOM Abstraction Layer:
* COM initialization / shutdown
*/
/*
* Copyright (C) 2006-2007 innotek GmbH
*
* This file is part of VirtualBox Open Source Edition (OSE), as
* available from http://www.virtualbox.org. This file is free software;
* General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation,
* in version 2 as it comes in the "COPYING" file of the VirtualBox OSE
* distribution. VirtualBox OSE is distributed in the hope that it will
* be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY of any kind.
*
* If you received this file as part of a commercial VirtualBox
* distribution, then only the terms of your commercial VirtualBox
* license agreement apply instead of the previous paragraph.
*/
#ifndef __VBox_com_com_h__
#define __VBox_com_com_h__
{
/**
* Initializes the COM runtime.
* Must be called on every thread that uses COM, before any COM activity.
*
* @return COM result code
*/
/**
* Shuts down the COM runtime.
* Must be called on every thread before termination.
* No COM calls may be made after this method returns.
*/
/**
* Resolves a given interface ID to a string containing the interface name.
* If, for some reason, the given IID cannot be resolved to a name, a NULL
* string is returned. A non-NULL string returned by this funciton must be
* freed using SysFreeString().
*
* @param aIID ID of the interface to get a name for
* @param aName Resolved interface name or @c NULL on error
*/
/**
* Returns the VirtualBox user home directory.
*
* On failure, this function will return a path that caused a failure (or a
* null string if the faiulre is not path-related).
*
* On success, this function will try to create the returned directory if it
* doesn't exist yet. This may also fail with the corresponding status code.
*
* @param aDir Where to return the directory to.
* @return VBox status code.
*/
}; // namespace com
#endif // __VBox_com_com_h__