midl: error MIDL2471: Some attributes and/or data types in the idl and/or include/imported idl files can not be represented in the type library:iid_is

Question

I change my project code form Visual studio 2005 to visual studio 2015,this error occured.

How to solve this problem?

Answer 1

Are you sure that is not a warning but a error?

Please show the code of how you use the pointer attribute iid_is.

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Answer 2

Can you provide some error messages, please.

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Answer 3

The following is the information.

11>  Processing C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\Include\um\oaidl.idl
11>  oaidl.idl
11>  Processing C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\Include\um\objidl.idl
11>  objidl.idl
11>  Processing C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\Include\um\unknwn.idl
11>  unknwn.idl
11>  Processing C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\Include\shared\wtypes.idl
11>  wtypes.idl
11>  Processing C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\Include\shared\wtypesbase.idl
11>  wtypesbase.idl
11>  Processing C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\Include\shared\basetsd.h
11>  basetsd.h
11>  Processing C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\Include\shared\guiddef.h
11>  guiddef.h
11>  Processing C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\Include\um\ocidl.idl
11>  ocidl.idl
11>  Processing C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\Include\um\oleidl.idl
11>  oleidl.idl
11>  Processing C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\Include\um\servprov.idl
11>  servprov.idl
11>  Processing C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\Include\um\urlmon.idl
11>  urlmon.idl
11>  Processing C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\Include\um\msxml.idl
11>  msxml.idl
11>  Processing C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\Include\um\oaidl.acf
11>  oaidl.acf
11>  Processing C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\Include\um\ocidl.acf
11>  ocidl.acf
11>midl : error MIDL2471: Some attributes and/or data types in the idl and/or included/imported idl files can not be represented in the type library: iid_is
11>midl : error MIDL2471: Some attributes and/or data types in the idl and/or included/imported idl files can not be represented in the type library: iid_is
11>midl : error MIDL2471: Some attributes and/or data types in the idl and/or included/imported idl files can not be represented in the type library: local
11>midl : error MIDL2471: Some attributes and/or data types in the idl and/or included/imported idl files can not be represented in the type library: local
11>midl : error MIDL2471: Some attributes and/or data types in the idl and/or included/imported idl files can not be represented in the type library: local
11>midl : error MIDL2471: Some attributes and/or data types in the idl and/or included/imported idl files can not be represented in the type library: local
11>midl : error MIDL2471: Some attributes and/or data types in the idl and/or included/imported idl files can not be represented in the type library: local
11>midl : error MIDL2471: Some attributes and/or data types in the idl and/or included/imported idl files can not be represented in the type library: local
11>midl : error MIDL2471: Some attributes and/or data types in the idl and/or included/imported idl files can not be represented in the type library: local
11>midl : error MIDL2471: Some attributes and/or data types in the idl and/or included/imported idl files can not be represented in the type library: local
11>midl : error MIDL2471: Some attributes and/or data types in the idl and/or included/imported idl files can not be represented in the type library: local
11>midl : error MIDL2471: Some attributes and/or data types in the idl and/or included/imported idl files can not be represented in the type library: local
11>midl : error MIDL2471: Some attributes and/or data types in the idl and/or included/imported idl files can not be represented in the type library: local
11>midl : error MIDL2471: Some attributes and/or data types in the idl and/or included/imported idl files can not be represented in the type library: local
11>midl : error MIDL2471: Some attributes and/or data types in the idl and/or included/imported idl files can not be represented in the type library: local
11>midl : error MIDL2471: Some attributes and/or data types in the idl and/or included/imported idl files can not be represented in the type library: local
11>midl : error MIDL2471: Some attributes and/or data types in the idl and/or included/imported idl files can not be represented in the type library: local
11>midl : error MIDL2471: Some attributes and/or data types in the idl and/or included/imported idl files can not be represented in the type library: local
11>midl : error MIDL2471: Some attributes and/or data types in the idl and/or included/imported idl files can not be represented in the type library: size_is/length_is etc.
11>midl : error MIDL2471: Some attributes and/or data types in the idl and/or included/imported idl files can not be represented in the type library: size_is/max_is
11>midl : error MIDL2471: Some attributes and/or data types in the idl and/or included/imported idl files can not be represented in the type library: size_is/max_is
11>midl : error MIDL2471: Some attributes and/or data types in the idl and/or included/imported idl files can not be represented in the type library: size_is/max_is
11>midl : error MIDL2471: Some attributes and/or data types in the idl and/or included/imported idl files can not be represented in the type library: size_is/max_is
11>midl : error MIDL2471: Some attributes and/or data types in the idl and/or included/imported idl files can not be represented in the type library: size_is/max_is
11>midl : error MIDL2471: Some attributes and/or data types in the idl and/or included/imported idl files can not be represented in the type library: size_is/length_is etc.