CoInitializeEx()

[skiflyer]

Ok... I'm new to .Net, and basically new to Visual C++, though am very confident in good old fashioned C++ (namely g++ and gcc and the like, but haven't touched Visual since '95 or so)

Anyway, I'm working on a .Net project, I think it should be pretty easy, but I'm stuck early... stuck using CoInitializeEx(), though Visual Studio pops up with the completion of the function after I type it in, when I go to build I get error 2065, CoInitializeEx: Undeclared Identifier... and then the resulting errors that follow such a thing.

So I trashed everything, made a default hello world program, and tried just to run CoInitializeEx()... no go. I've looked it all up, and I think I see what the function does, but that doesn't help me find it....

Do I need to register something somewhere, a simple include (fairly certain that's not it), or something totally different?

Thanks,
Rob

 

[skiflyer]

I always find it right after I post....

for those who might have the same problem, the solution is...


#include <afxole.h>
#include <objbase.h>

(found on these boards in fact)

-Rob

 

[AliAndAli]

in your project setting add WIN32_DCOM to your preprocessor definitions.

 

[skiflyer]

Yeah, I had thought maybe that was the route, but I can't find
Project
->Setting
->Preprocessor definitions.... where would these be?

-Rob