Re: CoCreateInstance call failing with error E_NOINTERFACE

From:
"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.atl
Date:
Mon, 29 Jan 2007 08:13:17 -0500
Message-ID:
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<catharticmomentusenet@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:1170069751.121723.198760@h3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com

I've noticed that the object in question aggregates the free-threaded
marshaller, something I don't know much about.


Then it's not STA. By agregating FTM, the object declares that any
method on it can be called by any thread at any time, no marshalling or
synchronization necessary.

An object aggregating FTM should be marked ThreadingModel="Both". It is
pointless and misleading to mark it "Apartment".

However it appears that
if I remove this aggregation then the initialize call executes within
the STA and functions correctly.


It functioned correctly with the FTM, too. It did precisely what you
asked for.
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