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ASYNC Main Does not Respect [STAThread]

See original GitHub issue

Version Used: 2017.3 Steps to Reproduce: Run this code:

[STAThread]
static async Task Main(string[] args) {
	Console.WriteLine(System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.ApartmentState);
}

Expected Behavior: I expect the thread to be STA.

Actual Behavior: The thread is MTA.

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Created 6 years ago
Reactions:13
Comments:18 (11 by maintainers)

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agockecommented, Jan 10, 2018

As mentioned in https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/issues/97, this was explicitly considered and rejected by LDM. In addition, it sounds as though putting the attribute on the generated main method is not sufficient, anyway.

Regardless, this needs to be taken through the dotnet/csharplang repo and LDM before we’d consider a compiler change here.

7reactions

houseofcatcommented, Mar 24, 2022

I appreciate the consideration. My sole concern was to help people who come across this.

@RussKie

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