VARIANT的结构可以参考头文件VC98IncludeOAIDL.H中关于结构体tagVARIANT的定义。
struct tagVARIANT
{
union
{
struct __tagVARIANT
{
VARTYPE vt;
WORD wReserved1;
WORD wReserved2;
WORD wReserved3;
union
{
LONG lVal;
BYTE bVal;
SHORT iVal;
FLOAT fltVal;
DOUBLE dblVal;
VARIANT_BOOL boolVal;
_VARIANT_BOOL bool;
SCODE scode;
CY cyVal;
DATE date;
BSTR bstrVal;
IUnknown __RPC_FAR *punkVal;
IDispatch __RPC_FAR *pdispVal;
SAFEARRAY __RPC_FAR *parray;
BYTE __RPC_FAR *pbVal;
SHORT __RPC_FAR *piVal;
LONG __RPC_FAR *plVal;
FLOAT __RPC_FAR *pfltVal;
DOUBLE __RPC_FAR *pdblVal;
VARIANT_BOOL __RPC_FAR *pboolVal;
_VARIANT_BOOL __RPC_FAR *pbool;
SCODE __RPC_FAR *pscode;
CY __RPC_FAR *pcyVal;
DATE __RPC_FAR *pdate;
BSTR __RPC_FAR *pbstrVal;
IUnknown __RPC_FAR *__RPC_FAR *ppunkVal;
IDispatch __RPC_FAR *__RPC_FAR *ppdispVal;
SAFEARRAY __RPC_FAR *__RPC_FAR *pparray;
VARIANT __RPC_FAR *pvarVal;
PVOID byref;
CHAR cVal;
USHORT uiVal;
ULONG ulVal;
INT intVal;
UINT uintVal;
DECIMAL __RPC_FAR *pdecVal;
CHAR __RPC_FAR *pcVal;
USHORT __RPC_FAR *puiVal;
ULONG __RPC_FAR *pulVal;
INT __RPC_FAR *pintVal;
UINT __RPC_FAR *puintVal;
struct __tagBRECORD
{
PVOID pvRecord;
IRecordInfo __RPC_FAR *pRecInfo;
} __VARIANT_NAME_4;
} __VARIANT_NAME_3;
} __VARIANT_NAME_2;
DECIMAL decVal;
} __VARIANT_NAME_1;
};
对于VARIANT变量的赋值：首先给vt成员赋值，指明数据类型，再对联合结构中相同数据类型的变量赋值，举个例子：
int a=2001;
va.vt=VT_I4;///指明整型数据
va.lVal=a; ///赋值
对于不马上赋值的VARIANT，最好先用Void VariantInit（VARIANTARG FAR* pvarg）;进行初始化,其本质是将vt设置为VT_EMPTY,下表我们列举vt与常用数据的对应关系:
short iVal; VT_I2
long lVal; VT_I4
float fltVal; VT_R4
double dblVal; VT_R8
VARIANT_BOOL boolVal; VT_BOOL
SCODE scode; VT_ERROR
CY cyVal; VT_CY
DATE date; VT_DATE
BSTR bstrVal; VT_BSTR
IUnknown FAR* punkVal; VT_UNKNOWN
IDispatch FAR* pdispVal; VT_DISPATCH
SAFEARRAY FAR* parray; VT_ARRAY|*
unsigned char FAR* pbVal; VT_BYREF|VT_UI1
short FAR* piVal; VT_BYREF|VT_I2
long FAR* plVal; VT_BYREF|VT_I4
float FAR* pfltVal; VT_BYREF|VT_R4
double FAR* pdblVal; VT_BYREF|VT_R8
VARIANT_BOOL FAR* pboolVal; VT_BYREF|VT_BOOL
SCODE FAR* pscode; VT_BYREF|VT_ERROR
CY FAR* pcyVal; VT_BYREF|VT_CY
DATE FAR* pdate; VT_BYREF|VT_DATE
BSTR FAR* pbstrVal; VT_BYREF|VT_BSTR
IUnknown FAR* FAR* ppunkVal; VT_BYREF|VT_UNKNOWN
IDispatch FAR* FAR* ppdispVal; VT_BYREF|VT_DISPATCH
SAFEARRAY FAR* FAR* pparray; VT_ARRAY|*
VARIANT FAR* pvarVal; VT_BYREF|VT_VARIANT
void FAR* byref; VT_BYREF
_variant_t是VARIANT的封装类，其赋值可以使用强制类型转换，其构造函数会自动处理这些数据类型。
例如：
ing i=100;
_variant_t lVal（l）;
lVal = （long）i;
COleVariant的使用与_variant_t的方法基本一样，请参考如下例子：
CString str =（BSTR）v3.pbstrVal;
long i = v4.lVal;