Microsoft KB Archive/285146

= PRB: &quot;Warning MIDL2368&quot; When UDT Tag Name Differs from UDT Name =

Article ID: 285146

Article Last Modified on 7/12/2001

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft COM+ 2.0 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q285146



SYMPTOMS
When the IDL file has a user-defined type (UDT) structure as follows: typedef [uuid(01234500-89AB-CDEF-0123-456789ABCDEF)] struct tagMyUDT { [helpstring(&quot;Name&quot;)]         BSTR Name; [helpstring(&quot;Address&quot;)]       BSTR Address; } MyUDT; Microsoft Interface Definition Language (MIDL) gives the following warning:

warning MIDL2368 : error generating type library, ignored : Could not set UUID : tagMyUDT

You do not receive a warning if the UDT is an ENUM.



CAUSE
When you define a structure whose tag name is different from the struct name, MIDL generates a TKIND_ALIAS for the tag name. MIDL tries to set the universally unique identifier (UUID) on both the UDT itself and the tag (TKIND_ALIAS), and OLE Automation does not accept the same UUID on two entries, even though they are the same.



RESOLUTION
You can safely ignore the MIDL2368 warning. To work around this problem, rename the tag name of the structure so that it is the same as struct name.

