IConnectionPointContainer (Compact 2013)

3/26/2014

This interface supports connection points for connectable objects.

Connectable objects support the following features:

• Outgoing interfaces, such as event sets
• The ability to enumerate the IIDs of the outgoing interfaces
• The ability to connect and disconnect sinks to the object for those outgoing IIDs
• The ability to enumerate the connections that exist to a particular outgoing interface

When to Implement

Implement this interface as part of support for connectable objects. To support connectable objects, you need to provide four related interfaces:

• IConnectionPointContainer
• IEnumConnectionPoints
• IConnectionPoint
• IEnumConnections

The IConnectionPointContainer interface indicates the existence of the outgoing interfaces.

It provides access to an enumerator subobject with the IEnumConnectionPoints interface. It also provides a connection point subobject with the IConnectionPoint interface.

The IConnectionPoint interface provides access to an enumerator subobject with the IEnumConnections interface.

The connection point is a separate subobject to avoid circular reference counting problems.

Implement the IConnectionPointContainer interface to make a connectable object, that is, an object with outgoing interfaces.

When to Use

Through IConnectionPointContainer, you can locate a specific connection point for one IID or obtain an enumerator to enumerate the connections points.

Use the IConnectionPointContainer interface to obtain access to the following:

• Enumerator subobjects with the IEnumConnectionPoints interface. The IEnumConnectionPoints interface can then be used to enumerate connection points for each outgoing IID.
• Connection point subobjects with the IConnectionPoint interface for each IID.
  Through the IConnectionPoint interface, a client starts or terminates an advisory loop with the connectable object and the client's own sink. The client can also use the IConnectionPoint interface to obtain an enumerator object with the IEnumConnections interface to enumerate the connections it knows about.

Methods in Vtable Order

IUnknown method	Description
QueryInterface	Returns pointers to supported interfaces.
AddRef	Increments the reference count.
Release	Decrements the reference count.

Method	Description
EnumConnectionPoints	Returns an object to enumerate all the connection points supported in the connectable object.
FindConnectionPoint	Returns a pointer to the IConnectionPoint interface for a specified connection point.

Remarks

To determine whether the platform supports this interface, see Determining Supported COM APIs.

Requirements

Header	ocidl.h, ocidl.idl
Library	ole32.lib, uuid.lib

See Also

Reference

COM Interfaces
IConnectionPoint
IEnumConnectionPoints
IEnumConnections