How do I use AfxOleGetMessageFilter in a VB .NET program?

Question

Hi. We have a program that calls a long-running (SolidWorks) API function. After a while, we get an error dialog saying that "the COM server is busy...". We've done some research and have found that you can control this by using a bit of C++ code similar to:

  COleMessageFilter *pFilter = AfxOleGetMessageFilter();
          if(pFilter)
          {
           pFilter->SetMessagePendingDelay(60000);
           pFilter = NULL;
          }

Problem is, we're ignorant on the C++ front and want to use VB.NET. We dug around and it turns out AfxOleGetMessageFilter comes from some MFC library. So my question is: is there some way we can achieve this call from VB.NET w/o getting into MFC? Is AfxOleGetMessageFilter a wrapper around some other WIN32API call that we can just DECLARE and call ourselves? Are there alternatives we should be pursuing?

I have one answer that suggests I implement the .NET IMessageFilter interface, but since that interface has only one seemingly unrelated method I'm still stumped.

Answer 1

You can't reuse COleMessageFilter from MFC this way.

You have to implement IMessageFilter in VB.Net

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