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CreateDispatch Error

I am working on a dll that has com objects and a client program that talks to the dll. In the client program, when I make a CreateDispatch call and if I am in the debugger, I am getting the following message displayed :

Warning: CreateDispatch returning scode = CO_E_NOTINITIALIZED ($80040F0)

What will cause this error ?

Thanks,
Andrew

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Raymond

I will be doing that tonight. Since I do not have my book with me, what is the difference between the 2 calls.

Thanks for the quick response.

Andrew

rwilson032697

The MSDN help says "New applications should call CoInitializeEx instead of CoInitialize. "

HRESULT CoInitialize( LPVOID pvReserved //Reserved; must be NULL);

HRESULT CoInitializeEx( void * pvReserved, //Reserved
DWORD dwCoInit //COINIT value);

dwCoInit
[in] Flags specifying the concurrency model and initialization options for the thread. Values for this parameter are taken from the COINIT enumeration. This may contain any combination of values from the COINIT enumeration, except that the COINIT_APARTMENTTHREADED and COINIT_MULTITHREADED flags cannot both be set.

Cheers,

Raymond.

aravindtj

Can you use CreateDispatch from a Windows Service.

Thanks
Aravind.

rwilson032697

I don't see why not.