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ahpho
ahpho

Reputation: 11

System.InvalidCastException when using a COM interface

I wrote a atl COM dll, dual. And used one of its intreace X in a C# GUI proj. when call X.F(), I got an System.InvalidCastException, can not cast namespace.XClass to namespace.IX, QueryInterface failed: BADTYPE. The call was in my own thread.

If i move the code to the GUI thread, it works just fine.

Please help me with that. Thanks a lot.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 386

Answers (2)

Hans Passant
Hans Passant

Reputation: 941208

COM requires a proxy/stub to marshal the call from the thread to the thread that created the object. QI will fail if it cannot find it in the HKCR\Interface registry key.

Upvotes: 2

Ana Betts
Ana Betts

Reputation: 74654

COM objects are often STA, which means that they can only be used by the thread that created them

Upvotes: 2

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