Has anyone successfully used GetMates Method from (IComponent2)?  I have an array of the components and I am trying to move through the array of components and get the mates from each component.  The code I have compiles and runs but when I watch the output it shows a safearray that contains bad pointers.  I have tried many different things but to no avail.  I think my problem is with the Variants and the SafeArrays which I do not completely understand.

Code:

      IComponent2** componentArray = NULL;

      componentArray = new IComponent2 * [componentCount];

      swAssemDoc->IGetComponents(false, componentCount, componentArray);

      VARIANT compMates;     

      SAFEARRAY* pSafeArrayOfMates = NULL;

      for(long i = 0; i < componentCount; i++){

            CComBSTR sComponentName(L"");

            componentArray[i]->get_Name(&sComponentName);

            componentArray[i]->GetMates(&compMates);

            pSafeArrayOfMates = V_ARRAY(&compMates);

      }

      delete [] componentArray;

      swAssemDoc.Release();  

}

Thanks,

Eric O.