ATL exe won't exit if DispEventAdvise is used

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microsoft.public.vc.atl
Date:
Mon, 16 Feb 2009 09:25:01 -0800
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Hi,

I have an out of process ATL exe hosting a control using
CAxWindow2.CreateControl. An event sink is created and a connection to the
control is created using DispEventAdvise.

The vents are received fine, however the exe will not exit once
DispEventUnadvise is called and all references are released.

If I take out the DispEventAdvise call, the exe will stop correctly after
all references are released.

What am I missing here?

Thanks!

Here is the code that creates the control:

STDMETHODIMP COOPSideUserControl::CreateViewControl(LONG hWnd)
{
    try
    {
        RECT rect;
        GetClientRect((HWND) hWnd, &rect);
        RECT rect2;
        rect2 = rect;

        // ATL class to host the control
        CAxWindow2 axwnd;

        // Create a child window.
        // AtlAx functions will subclass this window.

        // type of CWindowImpl<CControlContainerWindow>
        m_pwndControlContainerWindow = new CControlContainerWindow();
        m_pwndControlContainerWindow->Create((HWND) hWnd, rect2, NULL, WS_CHILD |
WS_VISIBLE | WS_BORDER, 0, 1);

        // Attach the child window to the CAxWindow so we can access the
        // host that subclasses the child window.
        axwnd.Attach(m_pwndControlContainerWindow->m_hWnd);

        if (axwnd.m_hWnd != NULL)
        {
            HRESULT hr = axwnd.CreateControl(CONTROLID_MyOOPSideControl);

            if (SUCCEEDED(hr))
            {
                // declared as: CommonInterface::ICommonInterfacePtr m_spOOPSideControl;
                HRESULT hr = axwnd.QueryControl(&m_spOOPSideControl);
                if (SUCCEEDED(hr))
                {
                    // declared as IUnknown* m_pInnerOOPSideControl;
                    m_pInnerOOPSideControl = m_spOOPSideControl.GetInterfacePtr();

                    // Sink events form the control
                    // If I remove this line, this ATL exe will exit correctly
                    hr = DispEventAdvise(m_spOOPSideControl,
&__uuidof(CommonInterface::CommonInterfaceEvents));
                }
            }
        }
        axwnd.Detach();
    }
    catch (...)
    {
        ATLTRACE(TEXT("OOPSideControl::CreateViewControl Erros \n"));
        return E_FAIL;
    }

    return S_OK;
}

STDMETHODIMP COOPSideUserControl::DestroyViewControl(void)
{
    ATLTRACE("COOPSideUserControl::DestroyViewControl\n");

    // Release the interface
    HRESULT hr ;
    // Unsink events form the control
    hr = DispEventUnadvise(m_spOOPSideControl);
    m_spOOPSideControl.Release();

    return S_OK;
}

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