Hi,
I wanted to instantiate a STA COM component twice, once in the main
thread and once in a secondary thread. All worked fine for the main
thread, but for the secondary thread, I got 'Query Interface failed'
errors when trying to access COM methods.
I once had the same problem in a C++ application. The solution there was
to call CoInitialize() for each thread. So I tried the same in C#; I
added the following code to my worker thread class:
[DllImport("ole32.dll")]
static extern int CoInitialize(IntPtr pvReserved);
And then called 'CoInitialize((System.IntPtr)null)'
in the worker thread function, before instantiating the 2nd COM object.
AND IT WORKED!
Questions:
- Is this allowed?
- Is this correct?
- Isn't there a pendant for CoInitialize() in C#
- If all is wrong, what would be the correct approach?
Thanks in advance
Urs
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