New Post: GetImageMso Bug in 1.7.3?

I got this working by making a custom version of netoffice where i have the GetImageMso() method which simply casts directly to IPictureDisp.

I did try using the CreateKnownObjectFromComProxy method first, but since all the stdole (I)Picture* stuff is interfaces, that fails when calling Activator.CreateInstance (as the interfaces does not have constructors).

Also i changed the method to return an stdole.IPictureDisp (as consistent with MS documentation) instead of an stdole.Picture as it did before (but i didn't test if both will work).

i.e. the code in my custom version is

public stdole.IPictureDisp GetImageMso(string idMso, Int32 width, Int32 height)
{
  object[] paramsArray = Invoker.ValidateParamsArray(idMso, width, height);
  object returnItem = Invoker.MethodReturn(this, "GetImageMso", paramsArray);
  return (stdole.IPictureDisp)returnItem;
}

while the official 1.7.3 code is

public stdole.Picture GetImageMso(string idMso, Int32 width, Int32 height)
{
object[] paramsArray = Invoker.ValidateParamsArray(idMso, width, height);
object returnItem = Invoker.MethodReturn(this, "GetImageMso", paramsArray);
stdole.Picture newObject = Factory.CreateObjectFromComProxy(this, returnItem) as stdole.Picture;
return newObject;
}

Sebastian: maybe you can provide some insight into what is the correct approach here?

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