Why wouldn't you be able to pass the named arguments as strings?

It should accept arrays... since the number of elements is specified by cNames and "as string" is just passing a pointer to a string anyway, you should be able to pass stringarray(0) and it will get all of them... at least, this is how it works for interfaces, longs/integers/bytes, and UDTs, though I haven't specifically tried that setup with strings.

With Invoke, you'd pass VarPtr(variant), which is equivalent to passing ByRef variant. But yes that doesn't match the official definition so should have been different.

But sure I can put your alternate version into the next release... I'll mark it hidden so as not to confuse but IDispatchM2000 will be there (all this does is prevent it from showing up in the object browser, you can use it as normal, it's the 'restricted' attribute that interferes with normal use).