F# Data Toolbox: Twitter type provider - single-threaded apartment

[JonnyBoats]

Referencing: http://fsprojects.github.io/FSharp.Data.Toolbox/TwitterProvider.html

When building a F# console application (as opposed to FSI) application-only authentication works just fine.

However
let connector = Twitter.Authenticate(key, secret)
fails with:

System.Threading.ThreadStateException was unhandled
Message: An unhandled exception of type 'System.Threading.ThreadStateException' occurred in System.Windows.Forms.dll
Additional information: ActiveX control '8856f961-340a-11d0-a96b-00c04fd705a2' cannot be instantiated because the current thread is not in a single-threaded apartment.

[evelinag]

It seems to be a threading issue
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1418466/single-threaded-apartment-cannot-instantiate-activex-control
Would it work if you created the new thread for Twitter connector yourself in your application?

I'm not sure if the PIN-based authentication is the right thing to do from a console application. There are other access options as well that we haven't implemented so far:
https://dev.twitter.com/docs/auth/obtaining-access-tokens
(we'll be happy for pull requests!)

[ghost]

Hi

Got the same issue here trying in a compiled f#. (Interactive is great !)

Just a newbie here, here are my two cents

I think this has to do with this

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6271078/f-windows-form-in-a-compiled-program

and this

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13136605/object-oriented-hello-world-using-windows-forms-in-f

So maybe the form code for member TwitterWeb should use the compiler directives to tell if it is interactive or not

Thanks