August 11, 2014 | The Old New Thing

The Old New Thing

Revival of the Daleks: Act One, Scene One

Raymond ChenAugust 11, 2014Aug 11, 201408/11/14

In 2009, a group of volunteers on a routine cleanup of a pond in Hampshire, England discovered a Dalek. (Later in the episode, the story may introduce a scientist who is thawing out a 30,000-year-old-virus...

If you want to set a thread's apartment model via Thread.CurrentThread.ApartmentState, you need to act quickly

Raymond ChenAugust 11, 2014Aug 11, 201408/11/14

Welcome to CLR Week 2014. Don't worry, it'll be over in a few days. A customer wanted to know why their FolderBrowserDialog was displaying the infamous Current thread must be set to single thread apartment (STA) mode before OLE calls can be made error. "Even though we set the ApartmentState to STA, the apartment state is ...

The Old New Thing

August 11, 2014 | The Old New Thing

Revival of the Daleks: Act One, Scene One

If you want to set a thread's apartment model via Thread.CurrentThread.ApartmentState, you need to act quickly

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