Re: ADO in a console? ADO in a service?

From: Brian Bushay TeamB (BBushay_at_Nmpls.com)
Date: 11/26/04 

Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 20:40:57 -0600

>Is it possible to reliably run ADO operations from applications
>running without a win message pump, such as
>
>- a console?
>- a service?
Yes you can use ADO in a service or console app

>Are there limitations, pitfalls and/or funny behaviors to be aware of?
ADO uses COM. CoInitialize needs to be called in any thread you use ADO in and
CoUninitialize should be called when you are finished. 

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Brian Bushay (TeamB)
Bbushay@NMPLS.com

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