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I made an automation Add-In for Excel, and I made several functions (formulas).

I have a class which header looks like this (it is COM visible): 

[ClassInterface(ClassInterfaceType.AutoDual)]
[ComVisible(true)]
public class Functions
{}

In a list of methods, I see:

 ToString(), Equals(), GetHashCode() and GetType() methods.

Since all methods of my class are COM visible, I should somehow hide those 4. I succeeded with 3 of them:

ToString(), Equals(), GetHashCode()

but GetType() cannot be overriden.

Here is what I did with 3 of them:

 [ComVisible(false)]
 public override string ToString()
 {
    return base.ToString();
 }

 [ComVisible(false)]
 public override bool Equals(object obj)
 {
   return base.Equals(obj);
 }

 [ComVisible(false)]
 public override int GetHashCode()
 {
   return base.GetHashCode();
 }

This doesn't work:

[ComVisible(false)]
public override Type GetType()
{
  return base.GetType();
}

Here is the error message in Visual Studio when compile:

..GetType()': cannot override inherited member 'object.GetType()' because it is not marked virtual, abstract, or override

So, what should I do to hide the GetType() method from COM?

Dirk Vollmar
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I thought COM used Interfaces and hides the implementation, so i would go with that. There is no way to hide GetType as fas as i know.

Jouke van der Maas
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You should introduce a new COM interface and inherit your class from it with ClassInterfaceType.None. This way you will only expose the methods in that interface.

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  • Both of you were right, guys! I implemented like you said - interface WITHOUT ToString() etc... Only methods that I needed. In my class, I've set: [ClassInterface(ClassInterfaceType.None)] [ComVisible(true)] public class Functions : IFunctions and I implemented methods from IFunctions. THANKS! – ticky May 12 '10 at 12:09