Dll references between VB6 and .NET

[dbran]

OK, here's one...

I have a VB6 ActiveX dll that references another COM dll.  Let's call it "MyDll".  The VB6 code looks like this:

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Public Function ComToBytes(objName As String, obj As Object) As Byte()
    Dim PropBag As PropertyBag
    Set PropBag = New PropertyBag
       
    PropBag.WriteProperty objName, obj
    ComToBytes = PropBag.Contents
End Function
   
Public Function BytesToType1(objName As String, obj() As Byte) As Mydll.Type1
    Dim PropBag As PropertyBag
    Set PropBag = New PropertyBag
   
    PropBag.Contents = obj
    BytesToType1= PropBag.ReadProperty(objName)
End Function

Public Function BytesToType2(objName As String, obj() As Byte) As MyDll.Type2
    Dim PropBag As PropertyBag
    Set PropBag = New PropertyBag
   
    PropBag.Contents = obj
    BytesToType2= PropBag.ReadProperty(objName)
End Function


Originally, I tried having only two methods in the class with one of them returning an Object type.  Then I could cast it respectively in .Net.  However, this was throwing an error - 'Object variable or With block variable not set'.  I believe this was because it didn't really know what it was returning.

The .Net code references MyDll as well.  However, when it references the dll it Interops it.  So a call similar to:

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Type1 myObj = serializer.BytesToType1(ref objName, ref objArray);


will cause two errors:

• The type 'MyDll.Type1' is defined in an assembly that is not referenced. etc...
• Cannot implicitly convert type 'MyDll.Type1' to 'MyDll.Type1[<PATH TO INTEROPPED DLL>\Interop.TAMMACInterfaces.dll]'

Obviously, the two dll versions contain the same information.  I can't add the reference as suggested in error 1 because it would just wrap it again.  Any ideas on something like this?

Thanks!