Can you explain STA and MTA in your own words? Also, what are apartment threads and do they pertain only to COM? If so, why?

I'm getting very confused about whether C# marshal's COM objects between threads. To this end I have an application which is loading a set of files in a task parallel fashion. I'm using the StaTask...

Some time ago, I had to modify an old COM DLL (Visual C++ 2010, ATL) migrating it from "Apartment" threading model to "Both", i.e. it can now be called from both STA and MTA threads without seriali...

I am using the technique shown in WebBrowser Control in a new thread Trying to get a screen-scrape of a webpage I have been able to get the following code to successfully work when the WebBro...

I have a few questions about Apartments: Was this model introduced for COM purposes only? Can you point to good resources about them? From a thread safety standpoint what does it mean that a comp...

Come across what looks at first sight like an MT-issue, but I'm trying to understand in detail the STA model used by COM+. Effectively, I have a legacy COM+ component, written in VB6, that calls i...

Possible Duplicate: Could you explain STA and MTA? All ThreadPool threads are in the multithreaded apartment. --As per the MSDN What does that mean? I am really concerned with w...