Main Apartment Must Not Exit While Process Does OLE Work

 Last reviewed: October 3, 1995
Article ID: Q137630
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft 32 bit OLE libraries included with: 

        - Microsoft Windows NT version 3.51
    - Microsoft Windows 95 version 4.0

In OLE's apartment threading model, the main apartment of the process is the thread that first calls OleInitialize (or CoInitialize) either implicilty or explicitly. The main apartment must not exit until completion of all OLE work in the process.

Additional reference words: 4.00 CreateThread
KBCategory: kbole kbprg
KBSubcategory: LeTwoArc

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Last reviewed: October 3, 1995
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