Are Visual Studio 2008's default MIDL Output properties wrong when I add a new Midl file to my project?
I have a basic ATL project, suppose it's named SomeProject. By default Visual studio creates a file called SomeProject.idl. Then I add a new Midl file named SomeMidl.idl (via Add Item and selecting Midl file).
When I open the Properties dialog for the new SomeMidl.idl file, and go to the MIDL > Output section, I see the following properties:
- Header File: SomeProject_i.h
- IID File: SomeProject_i.c
- Proxy File: SomeProject_p.c
- Type Library: $(IntDir)/SomeProject.tlb
It looks like it just inherited the values from my SomeProject.idl file. Aren't these bad defaults? Shouldn't they be something like:
- Header File: SomeMidl.h
- IID File: SomeMidl_i.c
- Proxy File: SomeMidl_p.c
- Type Library: $(IntDir)/SomeMidl.tlb
(Note that I removed the trailing _i from the Header file... I thought the normal Header file naming convention left that out).
I am trying to have my IDL definitions split among multiple files, and then imported into a master one. I have way too many interfaces to have them all in a single file.