The Old New Thing

Does the CLR really call CoInitializeEx on the first call to unmanaged code, even if you don't deal with COM at all and are just calling native code via p/invoke?

March 16, 2015 Mar 16, 2015 03/16/15

Raymond Chen

Some time ago, I called out this part of the documentation regarding managed and unmanaged threading: On the first call to unmanaged code, the runtime calls Co­Initialize­Ex to initialize the COM apartment as either an MTA or an STA apartment. You can control the type of apartment created by setting the System.Threading....