The Old New Thing

Marshaling won't get in your way if it isn't needed

September 26, 2014 Sep 26, 2014 09/26/14

Raymond Chen

I left an exercise at the end of last week's article: "Why is the error raised only sometimes?" COM subscribes to the principle that if no marshaling is needed, then an interface pointer points directly at the object with no COM code in between. If the current thread is running in a single-threaded apartment, and it creates a COM object ...