/** @file
 *
 * MS COM / XPCOM Abstraction Layer:
 * COM initialization / shutdown
 */

/*
 * Copyright (C) 2006 InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH
 *
 * This file is part of VirtualBox Open Source Edition (OSE), as
 * available from http://www.virtualbox.org. This file is free software;
 * you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU
 * General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation,
 * in version 2 as it comes in the "COPYING" file of the VirtualBox OSE
 * distribution. VirtualBox OSE is distributed in the hope that it will
 * be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY of any kind.
 *
 * If you received this file as part of a commercial VirtualBox
 * distribution, then only the terms of your commercial VirtualBox
 * license agreement apply instead of the previous paragraph.
 */

#ifndef __VBox_com_com_h__
#define __VBox_com_com_h__

#include "VBox/com/defs.h"

namespace com
{

/**
 *  Initializes the COM runtime.
 *  Must be called on every thread that uses COM, before any COM activity.
 *
 *  @return COM result code
 */
HRESULT Initialize();

/**
 *  Shutdowns the COM runtime.
 *  Must be called on every thread before termination.
 *  No any COM calls may be made after this method returns.
 */
void Shutdown();

}; // namespace com

#endif // __VBox_com_com_h__