About apartment threading models

Question

I have a few questions about Apartments:

1. Was this model introduced for COM purposes only?
2. Can you point to good resources about them?
3. From a thread safety standpoint what does it mean that a component supports STA or MTA model?

Thanks.

Whencesoever

Answer 1

Maybe I can help with your second question. In this topic I have the following bookmarks in my browser:

1. Understanding and Using COM Threading Models
2. Understanding COM Apartments, Part I
3. Understanding COM Apartments, Part II

Mechanism

After reading number 2 it seems that this model was probably introduced for COM purposes. Also the article explains the implications of the apartment mode. – Whencesoever