Re: How does COM pick a thread to create object in?

This is not directly supported by ATL. It has a model whereby
it assigns objects to a pool of STA threads, but it lacks VB6's
STA per object model. I might add with good reason since this
doesn't scale well...

The apartment that register the class object is the apartment that
receives the object instantiation call (IClassFactory::CreateInstance).
In the case of STA this normally means a single-threaded server
since all STA objects end up in the same main thread that registered
all class objects during startup. ATL's auto-thread class factory
delegates the object creation to a thread in a pool of STA threads
and then marshals that object back before returning to the caller,
thus the object ends up in a different STA. You can write your
own class factory object that creates a new thread before doing
the same steps as ATL's auto-thread factory, but on the newly
created STA thread.

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