Force web service to use STAThread

[Mike Hildner]

Is it possible to have a web service that uses the single threaded apartment model? Dropping a COM component in the designed, then running, get an error that could not instantiate the ActiveX control because the current thread is not single-threaded apartment.

I know in a Windows Forms app, you can mark with the STAThread attribute, but there's no main method in a web service. Tried to mark the constructor with the attribute, was told I can't do that (methods only). Tried to mark the InitializeComponent method, but it didn't seem to have any effect (same error).

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Mike

[Mike Hildner]

Not a solution (yet), but I did find some information. Apparently it is impossible to force the main thread of a web service to use STA. A solution suggested was to spawn a new thread that was STA. Haven't gotten around to trying it yet.

[plenderj]

Try using the AspCompat="true" page directive

[Mike Hildner]

Page directive for a web service? Where would that go?