"Sunny" <sunny@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> In article <cl6etf$m3l$1$830fa79d@news.demon.co.uk>,
> idontwanttobespammedanymore@reallyidont.com says...
>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dv_wrcore/html/wrconthreadingsupportinoffice.asp
>>
>> This info (above) means to me that I should not automate Word from a
>> thread.
>> I am currently automating Word from a worker thread, not my main process.
>> However, I thought that as I actually created my instance of Word on the
>> same thread I'm automating it from (the worker thread) this should not be
>> an
>> issue. Is it basically saying I have to automate Word from my main
>> process,
>> not a worker thread, no-matter how\when the automation objects get
>> created?
>>
>
> From my experience so far I understand this:
> 1. If you create your own thread, and make its AppartmentState to be
> STA, it is safe to automate Office, if you create the the Office object
> in the same thread. Then the calls are serialized correctly.
> 2. But if you try to access an object, which is created in another
> thread, this is not supported and will fail.
>
> Please, read the thread COM, STA threads and internal threads, started
> by me a few days ago. Some clever guys there have input useful
> information.
>
> Cheers
> Sunny

"Arsal." <arslcs@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Buddy!
> i need to do the same stuff?
> can u guide me
> my emailis arslcs@gmail.com
> i want to generate a report on existing template using data in my app.
> regards
>
>
>
> "Robin Tucker" <idontwanttobespammedanymore@reallyidont.com> wrote in
> message news:<cl6etf$m3l$1$830fa79d@news.demon.co.uk>...
>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dv_wrcore/html/wrconthreadingsupportinoffice.asp
>>
>> This info (above) means to me that I should not automate Word from a
>> thread.
>> I am currently automating Word from a worker thread, not my main process.
>> However, I thought that as I actually created my instance of Word on the
>> same thread I'm automating it from (the worker thread) this should not be
>> an
>> issue. Is it basically saying I have to automate Word from my main
>> process,
>> not a worker thread, no-matter how\when the automation objects get
>> created?
>>
>> (this is related to the "Message filter indicates that the application is
>> busy." exception I am occassionally getting. This exception occurs
>> specifically when I'm fiddling about with one word document while my
>> application is generating a report in the background via. automation).