Closes the COM library on the current apartment, unloads all DLLs loaded by the apartment, frees any other resources that the apartment maintains, and forces all RPC connections on the apartment to close.
void CoUninitialize( );An apartment must call CoUninitialize once for each successful call it has made to CoInitialize or CoInitializeEx. Only the CoUninitialize call corresponding to the CoInitialize or CoInitializeEx call that initialized the library can close it.
Calls to OleInitialize must be balanced by calls to OleUnitialize. The OleUninitialize function calls CoUninitialize internally, so applications that call OleUninitialize do not also need to call CoUninitialize.
CoUninitialize should be called on application shutdown, as the last call made to the COM library after the application hides its main windows and falls through its main message loop. If there are open conversations remaining, CoUninitialize starts a modal message loop and dispatches any pending messages from the containers or server for this COM application. By dispatching the messages, CoUninitialize ensures that the application does not quit before receiving all of its pending messages. Non-COM messages are discarded.
Windows CE: Passing into this function any invalid and, under some circumstances, NULL pointers will result in unexpected termination of the application. For more information about handling exceptions, see Programming Considerations.
Windows NT: Use version 3.1 or later.
Windows: Use Windows 95 or later.
Windows CE: Use version 2.0 or later.
Header: Declared in objbase.h.
Import Library: Included as a resource in ole32.dll.
CoInitialize, CoInitializeEx, OleUninitialize