how to create a thread in COM

[shash]

hi,

I need to create thread within my COM object. But I'm not sure that
how can implement the multi-threaded environment properly. Can I just
create windows thread and do whatever processing I needed ?

I have heard about COM threads , but I'm not sure whether it is
talking about normal thread.

Please provide me a clarrification

[Igor Tandetnik]

shash wrote:
> I need to create thread within my COM object. But I'm not sure that
> how can implement the multi-threaded environment properly. Can I just
> create windows thread and do whatever processing I needed ?

Yes. Unless you want to make COM calls or fire COM events from that thread. Then it becomes trickier. See

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/150777
http://vcfaq.mvps.org/com/1.htm

> I have heard about COM threads , but I'm not sure whether it is
> talking about normal thread.

I'm not familiar with the term "COM thread", but my guess would be the author meant a regular thread (there is only one kind, the kind created by CreateThread API) that initialized COM and is performing COM-related work.
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