Question

I am getting this error when i try to show a form with an webbrowser in it.

ActiveX control ‘8856f961-340a-11d0-a96b-00c04fd705a2’ cannot be instantiated because the current thread is not in a single-threaded apartment

I am calling it by:

Public Class frmMain
  Class Server
       Public Shared Sub Main()
        Dim aTcpMessaging As IMessagingSystemFactory = New TcpMessagingSystemFactory()
        Dim anInputChannel As IInputChannel = aTcpMessaging.CreateInputChannel(theIPforLocal & ":" & thePort)
        Dim aStringMessagesFactory As IStringMessagesFactory = New StringMessagesFactory()
        Dim aStringMessageReceiver As IStringMessageReceiver = aStringMessagesFactory.CreateStringMessageReceiver()
        AddHandler aStringMessageReceiver.MessageReceived, AddressOf StringMessageReceived

        aStringMessageReceiver.AttachInputChannel(anInputChannel)
    End Sub

       Private Shared Sub StringMessageReceived()
            Call New frmMM().Show()
       End Sub
  End Class

  Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
    Dim RelState As Integer = 0
    Call frmMain.Server.Main()
    lblVer.Text = "V.7"
    Pid = 0
  End Sub
End Class

How can i load this up so it doesn’t show me that error?

Thanks.

David

Code update

 Class Server
    <STAThread()> Public Sub Main()
        Dim aTcpMessaging As IMessagingSystemFactory = New TcpMessagingSystemFactory()
        Dim anInputChannel As IInputChannel = aTcpMessaging.CreateInputChannel(theIPforLocal & ":" & thePort)
        Dim aStringMessagesFactory As IStringMessagesFactory = New StringMessagesFactory()
        Dim aStringMessageReceiver As IStringMessageReceiver = aStringMessagesFactory.CreateStringMessageReceiver()
        AddHandler aStringMessageReceiver.MessageReceived, AddressOf StringMessageReceived

        aStringMessageReceiver.AttachInputChannel(anInputChannel)
    End Sub

   Private Shared Sub StringMessageReceived()
        Call New frmMM().Show()
   End Sub
 End Class

  Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
    Dim RelState As Integer = 0
    Call frmMain.Server.Main()   '<-- the error now
    lblVer.Text = "V.7"
    Pid = 0
  End Sub
End Class

Answer 1

Class Server
<STAThread()> Public Sub Main()
    Dim aTcpMessaging As IMessagingSystemFactory = New TcpMessagingSystemFactory()
    Dim anInputChannel As IInputChannel = aTcpMessaging.CreateInputChannel(theIPforLocal & ":" & thePort)
    Dim aStringMessagesFactory As IStringMessagesFactory = New StringMessagesFactory()
    Dim aStringMessageReceiver As IStringMessageReceiver = aStringMessagesFactory.CreateStringMessageReceiver()
    AddHandler aStringMessageReceiver.MessageReceived, AddressOf StringMessageReceived

    aStringMessageReceiver.AttachInputChannel(anInputChannel)
End Sub

Private Shared Sub StringMessageReceived()
  Dim t As New Threading.Thread(AddressOf ShowFP)

  t.SetApartmentState(Threading.ApartmentState.STA)
  t.Start()
 End Sub
End Class

Private Shared Sub ShowFP()
  Dim ShowFP As New frmFPVid
  ShowFP.ShowDialog()
End Sub