Nunit and STAThread story

I use NUnit unit-testing framework to test my pet project Twebst. Being a collection of COM objects, Twebst can be used within any environment that supports COM. That means it can be used from .Net languages like C#.

First I started by creating an assembly to be used from NUnit GUI. Some tests failed without an obvious reason. After some research I understood that the COM apartment must be STAThread. The threading model must be set before the thread is started but I don't have access to NUnit GUI main thread from my assembly.

One possible solution to this problem is to transform the assembly into an EXE application that uses the NUnit framework like this:



[STAThread]
public static void Main(string[] args)
{
NUnit.ConsoleRunner.Runner.Main(
    new string[] { System.AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory + "MyExe.exe", "/nothread" });
}

When /nothread command line flag is used the tests are executed by the main thread which already has the right COM apartment properly set.