Platform SDK: Transaction Server

MTS Supported Variant Types

[This product will work only on Windows NT 4.0 versions and earlier. For Windows 2000 and later, see COM+ (Component Services).]

The following Automation types are supported by Microsoft Transaction Server.

VT_BOOL VT_LPSTR
VT_BSTR VT_LPWSTR
VT_CARRAY VT_NULL
VT_CLSID VT_PTR
VT_CY VT_R4
VT_DATE VT_R8
VT_DECIMAL VT_SAFEARRAY
VT_DISPATCH VT_UINT
VT_EMPTY VT_UI1
VT_ERROR VT_UI2
VT_HRESULT VT_UI4
VT_INT VT_UI8
VT_I1 VT_UNKNOWN
VT_I2 VT_USERDEFINED
VT_I4 VT_VARIANT
VT_I8 VT_VOID

The following types are not supported and will cause the server process to terminate with an error.

VT_FILETIME VT_BLOB
VT_STREAM VT_STORAGE
VT_STREAMED_OBJECT VT_STORED_OBJECT
VT_BLOB_OBJECT VT_CF