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CoInitializeEx problem

I have a simple COM object dll

skeletal description ...

class ATL_NO_VTABLE Cxxx :
public CComObjectRootEx<CComMultiThreadModel>,
public CComCoClass<Cxxx,
&CLSID_Cxxx>,
public Ixxx
{
public:
DECLARE_REGISTRY_RESOURCEID(IDR_xxx)
DECLARE_NOT_AGGREGATABLE(Cxxx)
DECLARE_PROTECT_FINAL_CONSTRUCT()

BEGIN_COM_MAP(Cxxx)
COM_INTERFACE_ENTRY(Ixxx)
END_COM_MAP()

STDMETHOD(AddNumbers)(/*[in]*/ long Num1, /*[in]*/ long Num2, /*[out]*/ long *ReturnVal);
};

with this simple IDL interface ..

interface Ixxx : IUnknown
{
[helpstring("method AddNumbers")]
HRESULT AddNumbers([in] long Num1, [in] long Num2, [out] long *ReturnVal);
};

I can SUCCESSFULLY use the dll from a C++ snippet, by using CoInitializeEx or CoInitialize, like this

.
.

#define _WIN32_DCOM

#import "..\xxx.dll" no_namespace
#include "..\xxx_i.c"
.
.

HRESULT hr = CoInitializeEx(NULL,
COINIT_APARTMENTTHREADED |
COINIT_DISABLE_OLE1DDE |
COINIT_SPEED_OVER_MEMORY);

// OR . . .HRESULT hr = CoInitialize(NULL);

if(SUCCEEDED(hr))
{
Ixxx* ixxx;
long x;
char temp[20];

hr = CoCreateInstance(CLSID_xxx,
NULL,
CLSCTX_ALL,
IID_Ixxx, (void**) &ixxx);

if(SUCCEEDED(hr))
{
hr = ixxx->AddNumbers(5, 6, &x);
hr = ixxx->Release();
::MessageBox(NULL, ltoa(x, temp, 10), "", MB_OK);
}
}
CoUnInitialize();
.
.
.

But when I use CoInitializeEx in the way I wish to, (multithreaded) like this:

HRESULT hr = CoInitializeEx(NULL,
COINIT_MULTITHREADED |
COINIT_DISABLE_OLE1DDE |
COINIT_SPEED_OVER_MEMORY);

the CoCreateInstance fails.

Why is COINIT_MULTITHREADED causing this?

best regards .....

JoeMarshall

is your snippet of code also in a dll or in an MFC app? If so, it may fail because CoInitializeEx has already been called and you are in a Single Threaded Apartment. You can find out if that's so by looking at the return value from the call which worked (with COINIT_APARTMENTTHREADED) and see if that is S_FALSE (which will still pass the SUCCEEDED(hr) test.). If so, that's the case.

If that's so, you're stuck with the apartment you are in.

Joe

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