PRB: IROT::IsRunning() Returns S_FALSE for OLE 1.0 Servers

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This article was previously published under Q109544

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SYMPTOMS

When an OLE 2.0 container application calls IRunningObjectTable::IsRunning() on the moniker for a linked OLE 1.0 object, IsRunning() returns S_FALSE even if that OLE 1.0 object is already running.

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CAUSE

OLE 1.0 objects do not register themselves in the running object table while they are running.

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Calling IMoniker::IsRunning() on the moniker for a linked OLE 1.0 object correctly returns S_OK if the object is indeed running.

As noted in the OLE SDK version 2.01 documentation for IRunningObjectTable::IsRunning(), clients of a moniker should not call IRunningObjectTable::IsRunning() directly; instead, they should call IMoniker::IsRunning().

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