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CoInitializeSecurity (ole32)
 
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Summary
Registers security and sets the default security values for the process, but this can't be directly called from managed code.

C# Signature:

[DllImport("ole32.dll")]
static extern int CoInitializeSecurity(IntPtr pVoid, int cAuthSvc,
   SOLE_AUTHENTICATION_SERVICE [] asAuthSvc, IntPtr pReserved1,
   uint dwAuthnLevel, uint dwImpLevel, IntPtr pAuthList, uint dwCapabilities,
   IntPtr pReserved3);

VB .NET Signature:

Declare Function CoInitializeSecurity

IntPtr, _

   cAuthSvc As Integer, asAuthSvc() As SOLE_AUTHENTICATION_SERVICE, _
   pReserved1 As IntPtr, dwAuthnLevel As Integer, dwImpLevel As Integer, _
   pAuthList As IntPtr, dwCapabilities As Integer, pReserved3 As IntPtr) As Integer

User-Defined Types:

SOLE_AUTHENTICATION_SERVICE

Notes:

You shouldn't call CoInitializeSecurity from managed code. That's because the CLR will almost always call CoInitialize upon startup before execution enters your main method, and CoInitialize will implicitly call CoInitializeSecurity if it hasn't already been called. Therefore, calling this from managed code will usually return RPC_E_TOO_LATE.

The workaround is to write an unmanaged "shim" that will call CoInitializeSecurity, then activate and call into managed code. You can do this via an export from a mixed-mode C++ DLL, by registering a managed component for use by COM, or by using the CLR hosting API.

Note
This advice below may not work reliably in v1.0 and v1.1 and will not work in the Whidbey (v2.0) product:

To use CoInitializeSecurity from a Windows Form Application, remove the STAThread attribute from the Main function, then call :

   System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.ApartmentState = ApartmentState.STA

It sets the apartment state, then make the call to CoInitializeSecurity.

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