I've just published a CodeProject article about how to do Reflection with IDispatch-based COM objects. The article provides a small C# DispatchUtility helper class that's easy to include in other projects. Internally, it uses a custom declaration of IDispatch and .NET's TypeToTypeInfoMarshaler to convert IDispatch's ITypeInfo into a rich .NET Type instance.
In your example, you could call DispatchUtility.GetType(obj, true) to get back a .NET Type instance, which you could then call GetMembers on.
FWIW, DispatchUtility's declaration of IDispatch.GetTypeInfo is nearly identical to yours. However, when calling GetTypeInfo, it passes in LOCALE_SYSTEM_DEFAULT (2048) rather than 0 for the lcid parameter. Perhaps GetTypeInfo returned a failure HRESULT for your disp.GetTypeInfo(0, 0, out t) call. Since you declared it with [PreserveSig], you'd need to check its result (e.g., by calling Marshal.ThrowExceptionForHR).
Here's a version of the DispatchUtility class with most comments removed:
using System;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using System.Reflection;
public static class DispatchUtility
{
private const int S_OK = 0; //From WinError.h
private const int LOCALE_SYSTEM_DEFAULT = 2 << 10; //From WinNT.h == 2048 == 0x800
public static bool ImplementsIDispatch(object obj)
{
bool result = obj is IDispatchInfo;
return result;
}
public static Type GetType(object obj, bool throwIfNotFound)
{
RequireReference(obj, "obj");
Type result = GetType((IDispatchInfo)obj, throwIfNotFound);
return result;
}
public static bool TryGetDispId(object obj, string name, out int dispId)
{
RequireReference(obj, "obj");
bool result = TryGetDispId((IDispatchInfo)obj, name, out dispId);
return result;
}
public static object Invoke(object obj, int dispId, object[] args)
{
string memberName = "[DispId=" + dispId + "]";
object result = Invoke(obj, memberName, args);
return result;
}
public static object Invoke(object obj, string memberName, object[] args)
{
RequireReference(obj, "obj");
Type type = obj.GetType();
object result = type.InvokeMember(memberName,
BindingFlags.InvokeMethod | BindingFlags.GetProperty,
null, obj, args, null);
return result;
}
private static void RequireReference<T>(T value, string name) where T : class
{
if (value == null)
{
throw new ArgumentNullException(name);
}
}
private static Type GetType(IDispatchInfo dispatch, bool throwIfNotFound)
{
RequireReference(dispatch, "dispatch");
Type result = null;
int typeInfoCount;
int hr = dispatch.GetTypeInfoCount(out typeInfoCount);
if (hr == S_OK && typeInfoCount > 0)
{
dispatch.GetTypeInfo(0, LOCALE_SYSTEM_DEFAULT, out result);
}
if (result == null && throwIfNotFound)
{
// If the GetTypeInfoCount called failed, throw an exception for that.
Marshal.ThrowExceptionForHR(hr);
// Otherwise, throw the same exception that Type.GetType would throw.
throw new TypeLoadException();
}
return result;
}
private static bool TryGetDispId(IDispatchInfo dispatch, string name, out int dispId)
{
RequireReference(dispatch, "dispatch");
RequireReference(name, "name");
bool result = false;
Guid iidNull = Guid.Empty;
int hr = dispatch.GetDispId(ref iidNull, ref name, 1, LOCALE_SYSTEM_DEFAULT, out dispId);
const int DISP_E_UNKNOWNNAME = unchecked((int)0x80020006); //From WinError.h
const int DISPID_UNKNOWN = -1; //From OAIdl.idl
if (hr == S_OK)
{
result = true;
}
else if (hr == DISP_E_UNKNOWNNAME && dispId == DISPID_UNKNOWN)
{
result = false;
}
else
{
Marshal.ThrowExceptionForHR(hr);
}
return result;
}
[ComImport]
[InterfaceType(ComInterfaceType.InterfaceIsIUnknown)]
[Guid("00020400-0000-0000-C000-000000000046")]
private interface IDispatchInfo
{
[PreserveSig]
int GetTypeInfoCount(out int typeInfoCount);
void GetTypeInfo(int typeInfoIndex, int lcid, [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.CustomMarshaler,
MarshalTypeRef = typeof(System.Runtime.InteropServices.CustomMarshalers.TypeToTypeInfoMarshaler))] out Type typeInfo);
[PreserveSig]
int GetDispId(ref Guid riid, ref string name, int nameCount, int lcid, out int dispId);
// NOTE: The real IDispatch also has an Invoke method next, but we don't need it.
}
}
