It does work on some machine's but wold not start on other computers.
from the code line's I see the problem is related to devex components.
this is the message I get:
We have reviewed your old posts and here is what we have found:
It seems, you were asked about Delphi interop, but Delphi creates x86 applications. Also, it seems, that your application fails on x64 systems. Since, VS creates ANY CPU applications, this most likely the cause of the problem. Try to build the application in VS for x86 platform, this should fix the problem.
I fixed the problem by using gacutil -i to add the dll to the assembly cache.
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Running an application from Visual Studio 2012 on 64-bit computers, displays the following error message:
Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {F2D4F4E5-EEA1-46FF-A83B-A270C92DAE4B} failed due to the following error: 80040154 Class not registered (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80040154 (REGDB_E_CLASSNOTREG))
I am using Inventor packandgo dll library in visualstudio.
Anyone know what is the error?
My problem and the solution
I have a 32 bit third party dll which I have installed in 2008 R2 machine which is 64 bit.
I have a wcf service created in .net 4.5 framework which calls the 32 bit third party dll for process. Now I have build property set to target 'any' cpu and deployed it to the 64 bit machine.
When Ii tried to invoke the wcf service got error "80040154 Class not registered (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80040154 (REGDB_E_CLASSNOTREG"
Now Ii used ProcMon.exe to trace the com registry issue and identified that the process is looking for the registry entry at HKLM\CLSID and HKCR\CLSID where there is no entry.
Came to know that Microsoft will not register the 32 bit com components to the paths HKLM\CLSID, HKCR\CLSID in 64 bit machine rather it places the entry in HKLM\Wow6432Node\CLSID and HKCR\Wow6432Node\CLSID paths.
Now the conflict is 64 bit process trying to invoke 32 bit process in 64 bit machine which will look for the registry entry in HKLM\CLSID, HKCR\CLSID. The solution is we have to force the 64 bit process to look at the registry entry at HKLM\Wow6432Node\CLSID and HKCR\Wow6432Node\CLSID.
This can be achieved by configuring the wcf service project properties to target to 'X86' machine instead of 'Any'.
After deploying the 'X86' version to the 2008 R2 server got the issue "System.BadImageFormatException: Could not load file or assembly"
Solution to this badimageformatexception is setting the 'Enable32bitApplications' to 'True' in IIS Apppool properties for the right apppool.
The problem is that the DLL is registered on the 32 bit version of the windows registry, and the application is using the 64 bit version.
Solution: Go into the Project Properties, Compile tab and click "Advanced Compile Options...". Change "Target CPU" to x86, click OK, save and try again.
Source:
http://www.theogray.com/blog/2009/10/comexception-regdbeclassnotreg-on-64-bit-windows
Has worked for me with an VB 6 COM DLL invoked from a .Net 4 Winforms application
Somewhere in the code you are using, there is a call to the Win32 API, CoCreateInstance, to dynamically load a DLL and instantiate an object from it.
The mapping between the component ID and the DLL that is capable of instantiating that object is usually found in HEKY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID in the registry. To discuss this further would be to explain a lot about COM in Windows. But the error indicates that the COM guid is not present in the registry.
I don't much about what the PackAndGo DLL is (an Autodesk component), but I suspect you simply need to "install" that component or the software package it came with through the designated installer to have that DLL and appropriate COM registry keys on your computer you are trying to run your code on. (i.e. go run setup.exe for this product).
In other words, I think you need to install "Pack and Go" on this computer instead of just copying the DLL to the target machine.
Also, make sure you decide to build your code appropriate as 32-bit vs. 64-bit depending on the which build flavor (32 or 64 bit) of Pack And Go you install.
I had the same problem. I tried lot of ways but at last solution was simple.
Solution:
Open IIS, In Application Pools, right click on the .net framework that is being used.
Go to settings and change 'Enable 32-Bit Applications' to 'True'.
In 64 bit windows machines the COM components need to register itself in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID (64 bit component) OR HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow6432Node\CLSID (32 bit component) . If your application is a 32 bit application running on 64-bit machine the COM library would typically look for the GUID under Wow64 node and if your application is a 64 bit application, the COM library would try to load from HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID. Make sure you are targeting the correct platform and ensure you have installed the correct version of library(32/64 bit).
Long solved I'm sure but this might help some other poor soul.
This error can ocurre if the DLL you are deploying in the install package is not the same as the DLL you are referencing (these will have different IDs)
Sounds obvious but can easily happen if you make a small change to the dll and have previously installed the app on your own machine which reregisters the dll.
I had run into the same problem. I added reference of Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel COM component's dll but Office was not installed on my system it wont give compile time error. I moved my application to another system and ran it..it worked successfully.
So, I can say in my case it was the system environment which was causing this issue.
I had this problem and I solved it when I understood that it was looking for the Windows Registry specified in the brackets.
Since the error was happening only in one computer, what I had to do was export the registry from the computer that it was working and install it on the computer that was missing it.
I was getting the below error in my 32 bit application.
Error: Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID
{4911BB26-11EE-4182-B66C-64DF2FA6502D} failed due to the following
error: 80040154 Class not registered (Exception from HRESULT:
0x80040154 (REGDB_E_CLASSNOTREG)).
And on setting the "Enable32bitApplications" to true in defaultapplicationpool in IIS worked for me.
For me, I had to install Microsoft Access Database Engine 2010 Redistributable and restart my computer.
This happened to me when I startup eclipse for a workspace and not other workspaces. In that workspace I had a *.ts file opened with "JS editor". Error occurred in spite of having correct file association in Preferences. Other *.ts file opened without error. To get around this, in "Open Resource" (ctrl-shift-r), I used the "Open With" button and selected "JS Editor", and the file opened without problem. After that eclipse knows the editor to use for that file. I solved the problem for one particular file type, but solution probably applies to all file types. Hope this helps someone. Thanks for reading
Check if the MS Office and MS Excel is installed on that server.
I have my dlls (.NET4) build with msbuild and obfuscated with SmartAssembly 5.5.
After that i set them with reference for simple console application in the MonoDevelop (latest) on Mac (10.8).
Built ok, but when i ran that simple app, i have a message:
Unknown heap type: SmartAssembly
I asked SA support but no luck yet (the saproj have item blabla(supports Mono) checked.
I dont see how to attach a screenshot, but, when i run my application i see in the console that message twice. It appears before program stops on the breakpoint on the first line of code.
So maybe someone knows what to change in SmartAssembly or in MonoDevelop to remove this problem ? Thanks
Many .NET obfuscators change the assemblies such that they are not technically correct assemblies (they fall outside the .NET assembly specs) but such that they still run on the Microsoft .NET runtime by exploiting bugs specific to Microsoft's implementation. I suspect they do this to make it harder for assembly reader tools/libraries to load the assemblies. Unfortunately, this also prevents Mono runtime from loading the assemblies. In general Mono has a policy of not "fixing" support for this kind of invalid obfuscated code, so you'll need to ask SmartAssembly support for help.
If you're certain you're compiling with SmartAssembly's "Strictly valid" option and it's not working, perhaps you could perhaps try their "Basic" option.
I have an year or so old application which uses Expression Encoder 3 to generate thumbnails. Few of the users are complaining that they are receiving the following exception:
Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.Expression.Encoder.Utilities.dll' or one of its dependencies. This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect.
The application contains in itself the required EE3 assemblies in the setup, so as such installation of Expression Encoder is not required.
All these crashes started to occur after the application was upgraded to .net 4.
Any clues on what might be happening?
[EDIT] Was able to reproduce the issue on one of our local systems. We did a clean install of Windows XP. Installed .net 4 and then our app. It crashed with the same exception. We could fix the issue by installing .net 3.5!
I was quick to point fingers at .net 4 backward compatibility.
So the question remains: any clues on what might be happening?
According to this question this seems to be an issue with EE3 itself in that it requires EE to be installed (via the installer) to work properly.
Sadly this also seems to be the case for EE4, according to this thread, due to a codec licence issue.
Sorry :/
Have you looked at MediaFoundation? it might serve as an alternative, although ive never used it myself.
I had similar problems, where it wasn't working on a Windows7 64-bit server.
Here's some things I've learnt:
You must modify your project's build settings so it has a target platform of "x86".
You must ensure that the "Desktop Experience" feature is enabled on the target machine. See this blog.
I have a VB.Net 1.1 application works just fine after compiling in Visual Studio. However, I want to use ILMerge to combine all the referenced assemblies into a single executable just to make it easier to move around. After I send it through ILMerge and try to run it I get the error
"Strong name validation failed for assembly.exe" .....
But none of my stuff is strong named! I saw this post here: Strong Name Validation Failed and tried running it through 'sn.exe -Vr merged.exe' but that gives me this error:
"merged.exe does not represent a strongly named assembly"
Has anyone else had this problem before? How do I fix it?
UPDATE:
I'm starting to feel like Strong name validation isn't the real problem here. I'm building against .NET v1.1 and running on a machine where that is the only .NET version installed (happens to be Windows 2003). The merged executable appears to die with that error on every Windows 2003 machine I try, but if I try to run it on a more modern OS (Vista) it at least starts, but that's not really a good test since the environment isn't fit for a real test.
I have verified that my app.config has the correct settings (specifying required and supported runtime version of v1.1.4322)
I use the /targetplatform:v1.1 option when running my assemblies through ILMerge.
ILMerge is definitely causing the problem (i.e. it works fine before I merge), I just don't know how to fix it.
I had to find and download a very old version of ILMerge (v1.1) in order for my merged binary to work; there must be a bug in the way the current ILMerge application builds .NET 1.1 assemblies. Thankfully we had one internally because I would probably have never found it online.
I have just installed a third party app on my Windows Server 2008 server
and I get the
ActiveX Component can't create object
message when I try to access using a CreateObject in VBScript.
It is definitely installed and exists under "Programs and Features". Does anyone have a list of things that I can check to figure out what is going on?
I have now tried to register the DLL using regsvr32.exe /i bob.dll as suggested but I get this error:
The Module "Bob.dll" was loaded but the entry-point DllRegisterServer was
not found.
Make sure that "Bob.dll" is valid DLL or OCX file and then try again.
I should note that this is a 32-bit application on a 64-bit machine at
this point. It also works fine on my machine which is Windows XP 32-bit.
It turns out to get this application working under VBScript, I had to do two things.
Run RegAsm.exe to register the DLLs.
Run the C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cscript.exe to run my VBScript.
If these don't work, check out the other answer here about enabling 32-bit applications in IIS.
It's also worth checking that you've got "Enable 32-bit Applications" set to True in the advanced settings of the DefaultAppPool within IIS.
The app is trying to create a COM Object and even if that COM DLL exists, it may depend on another DLL which isn't installed. You can use DependencyWalker to find out if this is the case.
Check your browser settings.
For me, using IE, the fix was to go into Tools/Internet Options, Security tab, for the relevant zone, "custom level" and check the ActiveX settings. Setting "Initialize and script ActiveX controls not marked as safe for scripting" to "Enable" fixed this problem for me.
Also when you register the component make sure you use the 32-bit version of regsvr32.exe.
If you simply run regsvr32.exe in a elevated prompt, it will default take the standard 64-bit version (which oddly enough is located in C:\Windows\System32)
The version I believe you need is located in C:\Windows\SysWow64\regsvr32.exe
It really looks as though the object you are referencing is not registered on the system. I know you said it's installed, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's registered. To confirm this, search for the progID that you used in your registry.
Example for this code:
set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
I would search for Scripting.FileSystemObject in the registry. Then I would look at registry key above the found value, for InProcServer32 value. This will give you the path to the ActiveX file that it was registered from (for Scripting.FileSystemObject the file is "c:\windows\system32\scrrun.dll").
If you can't find your progID in the registry, then it's not registered on your system which is your problem. If it's not registered you need to find out what file registers it, which is usually an .ocx or a .dll in the same folder path of your third party app, and then register these file(s). Here is the command to register a file:
regsvr32 /i "c:\windows\system32\scrrun.dll"
Even if you find the progID value in the registry and it references a file that is present on your system, you may still want to try re-registering the file. I have found that sometimes the registration got broken somehow somewhere and it was easier to re-register the files then it was to fix the issue.
If its a 32 bit COM/Active X, use version 32 bit of cscript.exe/wscript.exe located in C:\Windows\SysWOW64\
I know this is an old thread, but has anyone checked if their Antivirus is blocking Win32API and Scripting on their systems? I have CylanceProtect installed on my office system and i found the same issues occurring as listed by others. This can be confirmed if you check the Windows Logs in Event Viewer.
I also meet the same error in vbscript.
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Solution:
Open command line, run :
regsvr32 /i "c:\windows\system32\scrrun.dll"
and it works
I've had the same issue in a VB6 program I'm writing, where a Form uses a ScriptControl object to run VBScripts selected by the User.
It worked fine until the other day, when it suddenly started displaying 'Runtime error 429' when the VBScript attempted to create a Scripting.FileSystemObject.
After going mad for an entire day, trying all the solutions proposed here, I began suspecting the problem was in my application.
Fortunately, I had a backup version of that form: I compared their codes, and discovered that inadvertently I had set UseSafeSubset property of my ScriptControl object to True.
It was the only difference in the form, and after restoring the backup copy it worked like a charm.
Hope this can be useful to someone. Up with VB6! :-)
Max - Italy
I had the same issue with Excel, I was trying to use a 32 COM DLL with an Excel 64 bits version and I got this error. I rebuild the COM dll to a 64 bits version and the error disappears. So be sure that your COM dll has the same architecture (x86 vs x64) than your application.
I had this problem too. I was trying to run an old 32-bit dll in a 64 bit system. I got it working by copying the .dll to the C:\Windows\SysWoW64\ directory and running this:
%systemroot%\SysWoW64\regsvr32 "C:\Windows\SysWoW64\thenameofyourdll.dll"
And also enabling IIS to run 32 bit apps