Hello,

I am getting the following error when I try to use the
intrinsic VB Len function on a boolean property I have in
an ATL server:

Variable required - can't assign to this expression.

The error comes when I try to run some code like this:
   MsgBox Len(m_oClaimForm.Customer.New)

"New" is the offending property. If I do this:
   MsgBox m_oClaimForm.Customer.New
I'll get True or False.

This is the IDL:

[propget, id(3), helpstring("property New")] HRESULT New
([out, retval] VARIANT_BOOL *pVal);
[propput, id(3), helpstring("property New")] HRESULT New
([in] VARIANT_BOOL newVal);

and the get and put are below. (I'm storing as xml
internally ... it's sort of a state management object for
asp pages.) The same thing happens when I try to use Len
on another property of mine that's a long data type. If I
do an explicit conversion in the client, it works ok:

   MsgBox Len(CStr(m_oClaimForm.Customer.New))

It appears I need to return the expected data type (in
this case, a string. Can someone steer me in the right
direction?

TIA,
Paul

(here's the get and put):
STDMETHODIMP CCustomer::get_New(VARIANT_BOOL *pVal)
{
        _bstr_t sVal;
        sVal.operator = (m_oXml.findNodeText
(m_NodeBody, "New"));

        try  {
                if (sVal.operator == ("True"))  {
                        *pVal = true;
                }
                else  {
                        *pVal = false;
                }
        }
        catch(...)  {
                Error("Error getting New.");
                return E_FAIL;
                }
        return S_OK;

STDMETHODIMP CCustomer::put_New(VARIANT_BOOL newVal)
{
        MSXML2::IXMLDOMNodePtr pTemp =
m_oXml.findNodeAddIfAbsent(m_NodeBody, "New",
NODE_ELEMENT);

        try  {
                pTemp->text = (newVal =
true) ? "True" : "False";
                m_NodeBody->appendChild(pTemp);
        }
        catch(...)  {
                Error("Error setting New.");
                return E_FAIL;
                }
        return S_OK;