System.Drawing in Windows or ASP.NET services

Question

According to MSDN, it is not a particularly good idea to use classes within the System.Drawing namespace in a Windows Service or ASP.NET Service. Now I am d

Answer 1

It might be something to do with the GDI subsystem needing an STA thread. If this is the case, investigate specifying ASPCOMPAT=TRUE in your @PAGE directive for the aspx page involved. This will run the aspx page in an STA thread, IIRC.

-Oisin