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

From: Philippe Auphelle (pauphelle_at_wanadoo.fr)
Date: 11/26/04 

Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 14:29:11 +0100

Thanks, Brian.

>ADO uses COM. CoInitialize needs to be called in any thread you use ADO in and
>CoUninitialize should be called when you are finished.

That doesn't seem to be too hard :-)

Does CoInitialize need to be called before the ADO components are even
created (i.e. before I create the containing datamodule)? /Ph.

On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 20:40:57 -0600, Brian Bushay TeamB
<BBushay@Nmpls.com> wrote:

>
>>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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