When you have a console based client and a COM Server, can you call ::MessageBox(…) from the COM Server and expect it to work?
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When you have a console based client and a COM Server, can you call ::MessageBox(…) from the COM Server and expect it to work?
Yes, you can, but in some cases the box will be shown on another desktop and effectively block the calling thread, so you better not try this other than for debugging purposes.