Using VB6 Collection objects in VB.NET

[Guest ThePinkPanther]

I am currently developing an application which uses a third party COM component (written in VB6). The example code in the Third Party documentation states:

 

Dim oSession as ISession

Dim oDatabase as IDatabase

 

Set oSession = Connection.Database

 

For Each oDatabase in oSession

 

...

 

Next

 

However, the oSession which is returned by the Com object is IObject and I get an exception if I try to cast the object to a Collection using CType.

 

Has anyone come across this before? I've been scouring google and newsgroups all morning but have been unable to unearth anything.

[Derek Stone]

You can't cast a VB6 Collection object into a .NET collection object. It just doesn't work that way. Two entirely different types.