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Progress To COM Data Type Features and Limitations

When performing Progress to COM data type conversions, Progress does do automatic pointer conversions, but does not do conversions for certain data Progress types.

Pointer Conversions

When indicated, Progress converts the specified Progress data type to a Pointer or Variant Pointer COM data type. This has no effect on the value of the parameter or property, only on the way the value is packaged. Progress determines the conversion in the following ways:

Progress Data Types Not Converted

Progress does not convert the MEMPTR, ROWID, or WIDGET-HANDLE data types to COM data types.


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