Important:
This is retired content. This content is outdated and is no longer being maintained. It is provided as a courtesy for individuals who are still using these technologies. This content may contain URLs that were valid when originally published, but now link to sites or pages that no longer exist.
A version of this page is also available for
4/8/2010

Retrieves a type-information object, which can retrieve the type information for an interface.

Syntax 

HRESULT GetTypeInfo(
  UINT 
itinfo,
  LCID 
lcid,
  ITypeInfo** 
pptinfo
);

Parameters

itinfo

Type information to return. Pass zero to retrieve type information for the IDispatchimplementation.

lcid

Locale ID for the type information. An object might be able to return different type information for different languages.

This is important for classes that support localized member names.

For classes that do not support localized member names, this parameter can be ignored.

pptinfo

Pointer to the type-information object requested.

Return Value

Returns an E_POINTER if pptinfois invalid.

Returns TYPE_E_ELEMENTNOTFOUND if itinfois not zero.

Returns S_OK if is successful.

Otherwise, returns an HRESULTfrom one of the calls to retrieve the type.

The HRESULTindicates the error and can be one of the following standard constants, or other values not listed.

Value Description

E_FAIL

Failure.

E_POINTER

Null pointer argument.

E_INVALIDARG

Invalid argument.

Requirements

Windows Embedded CE Windows CE 2.12 and later
Windows Mobile Windows Mobile Version 5.0 and later
Note Microsoft DirectShow applications and DirectShow filters have different include file and Library requirements
For more information, see Setting Up the Build Environment,
Version 2.12 requires DXPAK 1.0 or later