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The [source] attribute indicates that a member of a coclass, property, or method is a source of events. For a member of a coclass, this attribute means that the member is called rather than implemented.

[
    coclass-attributes
]
coclass coclass-name
{
    [source [, optional-attributes] ] statement-type statement-name; 
  [, ...]
}

[source] object-type function-name(optional-parameter-list);

Parameters

coclass-attributes

Zero or more attributes that will be applied to the coclass.

coclass-name

The name identifier of the coclass.

optional-attributes

Zero or more MIDL attributes.

statement-type

Can be interface or dispinterface.

statement-name

The name of the interface or dispinterface.

object-type

The type of the object that the method returns. This object is a source of events.

function-name

The name of a method in an interface or dispinterface.

optional-parameter-list

Zero or more method parameters.

Remarks

On a property or method, the [source] attribute indicates that the member returns an object or VARIANT that is a source of events. The object implements IConnectionPointContainer.

Flags

IMPLTYPEFLAG_FSOURCE, VARFLAG_SOURCE, FUNCFLAG_SOURCE

Examples

[default, source] dispinterface DIMyFaceAdviseSink;
[source]interface IMyFaceAdviseSink;

See also

coclass

dispinterface

Generating a Type Library With MIDL

interface

ODL File Example

ODL File Syntax

TYPEFLAGS