I am experimenting with writing a library in F# that will be used by COM clients (VB6 and VBA). I have had good luck, except with get/set properties that are declared in interfaces, as shown in the sample code below. In this case, the type library produced by regasm.exe has different names for the getter and setter, e.g. X and X_2. If I declare a get/set property in the class instead of interface, then it works correctly, with both the getter and setter sharing the same name.

Any advice?

Aside:
I am using an interface in order to avoid exposing the ToString, GetHashCode, Equals, and GetType members from obj. A different approach that I tried was to use only a class, but within that class I supplied an overload of each of the obj methods and marked them as ComVisible(false)... almost... I could not override GetType. If there is no way to have get/set properties in an interface appear to a COM client with the same name, is there a way to expose a class's interface to COM without the obj members?

thanks,
Jason

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#light

[<System.Runtime.InteropServices.ComVisible(true)>]
type _A =
  interface
    abstract X : int
      with get, set
  end

[<System.Runtime.InteropServices.ComVisible(true);
  System.Runtime.InteropServices.ClassInterface(System.Runtime.InteropServices.ClassInterfaceType.None)>]
type A =
  class
    val mutable x : int
    new () = { x = 0 }
    interface _A with
      member this.X
        with get () = this.x
        and set v = this.x <- v
    end
  end