How to avoid a System Runtime InteropServices COMException

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In my Microsoft Surface project  I always get a lot of the following exceptions    MuReSe vshost exe   Managed  v2 0 50727    Loaded  C  Windows assembly GAC 32 mscorlib 2 0 0 0  b77a5c561934e089 mscorlib dll   MuReSe vshost exe   Managed  v2 0 50727    Loaded  C  Windows assembly GAC MSIL Microsoft VisualStudio HostingProcess Utilities 10 0 0 0  b03f5f7f11d50a3a Microsoft VisualStudio HostingProcess Utilities dll   MuReSe vshost exe   Managed  v2 0 50727    Loaded  C  Windows assembly GAC MSIL System Windows Forms 2 0 0 0  b77a5c561934e089 System Windows Forms dll   MuReSe vshost exe   Managed  v2 0 50727    Loaded  C  Windows assembly GAC MSIL System 2 0 0 0  b77a5c561934e089 System dll   MuReSe vshost exe   Managed  v2 0 50727    Loaded  C  Windows assembly GAC MSIL System Drawing 2 0 0 0  b03f5f7f11d50a3a System Drawing dll   MuReSe vshost exe   Managed  v2 0 50727    Loaded  C  Windows assembly GAC MSIL Microsoft VisualStudio HostingProcess Utilities Sync 10 0 0 0  b03f5f7f11d50a3a Microsoft VisualStudio HostingProcess Utilities Sync dll   MuReSe vshost exe   Managed  v2 0 50727    Loaded  C  Windows assembly GAC MSIL Microsoft VisualStudio Debugger Runtime 10 0 0 0  b03f5f7f11d50a3a Microsoft VisualStudio Debugger Runtime dll   MuReSe vshost exe   Managed  v2 0 50727    Loaded  C  Users Roflcoptr Documents Visual Studio 2008 Projects MuReSe MuReSe bin Debug MuReSe vshost exe   MuReSe vshost exe   Managed  v2 0 50727    Loaded  C  Windows assembly GAC MSIL System Core 3 5 0 0  b77a5c561934e089 System Core dll   MuReSe vshost exe   Managed  v2 0 50727    Loaded  C  Windows assembly GAC MSIL System Xml Linq 3 5 0 0  b77a5c561934e089 System Xml Linq dll   MuReSe vshost exe   Managed  v2 0 50727    Loaded  C  Windows assembly GAC MSIL System Data DataSetExtensions 3 5 0 0  b77a5c561934e089 System Data DataSetExtensions dll   MuReSe vshost exe   Managed  v2 0 50727    Loaded  C  Windows assembly GAC 32 System Data 2 0 0 0  b77a5c561934e089 System Data dll   MuReSe vshost exe   Managed  v2 0 50727    Loaded  C  Windows assembly GAC MSIL System Xml 2 0 0 0  b77a5c561934e089 System Xml dll   MuReSe vshost exe   Managed  v2 0 50727    Loaded  C  Windows assembly GAC MSIL WindowsBase 3 0 0 0  31bf3856ad364e35 WindowsBase dll   MuReSe vshost exe   Managed  v2 0 50727    Loaded  C  Windows assembly GAC 32 PresentationCore 3 0 0 0  31bf3856ad364e35 PresentationCore dll   MuReSe vshost exe   Managed  v2 0 50727    Loaded  C  Windows assembly GAC MSIL PresentationFramework 3 0 0 0  31bf3856ad364e35 PresentationFramework dll   MuReSe vshost exe   Managed  v2 0 50727    Loaded  C  Windows assembly GAC MSIL Microsoft Surface 1 0 0 0  31bf3856ad364e35 Microsoft Surface dll   MuReSe vshost exe   Managed  v2 0 50727    Loaded  C  Windows assembly GAC MSIL Microsoft Surface Presentation 1 0 0 0  31bf3856ad364e35 Microsoft Surface Presentation dll   MuReSe vshost exe   Managed  v2 0 50727    Loaded  C  Windows assembly GAC MSIL Microsoft Surface Presentation Generic 1 0 0 0  31bf3856ad364e35 Microsoft Surface Presentation Generic dll  The thread  vshost NotifyLoad   0x1504  has exited with code 0  0x0   The thread  vshost LoadReference   0x131c  has exited with code 0  0x0    MuReSe vshost exe   Managed  v2 0 50727    Loaded  C  Users Roflcoptr Documents Visual Studio 2008 Projects MuReSe MuReSe bin Debug MuReSe exe   Symbols loaded   MuReSe vshost exe   Managed  v2 0 50727    Loaded  C  Windows assembly GAC MSIL System Configuration 2 0 0 0  b03f5f7f11d50a3a System Configuration dll  Step into  Stepping over method without symbols  MuReSe App App   MuReSe vshost exe   Managed  v2 0 50727    Loaded  C  Windows assembly GAC MSIL Microsoft Surface Shell ShellApi 1 0 0 0  31bf3856ad364e35 Microsoft Surface Shell ShellApi dll   MuReSe vshost exe   Managed  v2 0 50727    Loaded  C  Windows assembly GAC MSIL Microsoft Surface Common 1 0 0 0  31bf3856ad364e35 Microsoft Surface Common dll  A first chance exception of type  System Runtime InteropServices COMException  occurred in Microsoft Surface Shell ShellApi dll A first chance exception of type  Microsoft Surface Common ProcessCommunicationException  occurred in Microsoft Surface Shell ShellApi dll A first chance exception of type  System Threading WaitHandleCannotBeOpenedException  occurred in mscorlib dll  MuReSe vshost exe   Managed  v2 0 50727    Loaded  C  Windows assembly GAC MSIL Microsoft Surface Core 1 0 0 0  31bf3856ad364e35 Microsoft Surface Core dll  A first chance exception of type  System Runtime InteropServices COMException  occurred in Microsoft Surface Core dll A first chance exception of type  System IO FileNotFoundException  occurred in mscorlib dll A first chance exception of type  System Runtime InteropServices COMException  occurred in Microsoft Surface Core dll A first chance exception of type  System Runtime InteropServices COMException  occurred in Microsoft Surface Core dll A first chance exception of type  System Runtime InteropServices COMException  occurred in Microsoft Surface Core dll A first chance exception of type  System Runtime InteropServices COMException  occurred in Microsoft Surface Core dll A first chance exception of type  System Runtime InteropServices COMException  occurred in Microsoft Surface Core dll A first chance exception of type  System Runtime InteropServices COMException  occurred in Microsoft Surface Core dll A first chance exception of type  System Runtime InteropServices COMException  occurred in Microsoft Surface Core dll A first chance exception of type  System Runtime InteropServices COMException  occurred in Microsoft Surface Core dll A first chance exception of type  System Runtime InteropServices COMException  occurred in Microsoft Surface Core dll A first chance exception of type  System Runtime InteropServices COMException  occurred in Microsoft Surface Core dll A first chance exception of type  System Runtime InteropServices COMException  occurred in Microsoft Surface Core dll A first chance exception of type  System Runtime InteropServices COMException  occurred in Microsoft Surface Core dll A first chance exception of type  System Runtime InteropServices COMException  occurred in Microsoft Surface Core dll A first chance exception of type  System Runtime InteropServices COMException  occurred in Microsoft Surface Core dll A first chance exception of type  System Runtime InteropServices COMException  occurred in Microsoft Surface Core dll A first chance exception of type  System Runtime InteropServices COMException  occurred in Microsoft Surface Core dll   The last Exception is thrown all the time until I stop the program  I already commented out all of my code  and I ran the application with nothing other than the already built in code  but the same happens   How can I correct that  I only found this reference   http   www mobydisk com softdev techinfo dotnetexceptions html  There it says      The exception that is thrown when an   unrecognized HRESULT is returned from   a COM method call    But I don t know what this means          EDIT      I followed the suggestion in the answer below to debug the exception  This is the detailed report   System Runtime InteropServices COMException occurred   Message Class not registered  Exception from HRESULT  0x80040154  REGDB E CLASSNOTREG     Source Microsoft Surface Shell ShellApi   ErrorCode -2147221164   StackTrace         at Microsoft Surface Shell NativeMethods CoCreateInstance Guid rclsid  Object pUnkOuter  CLSCTX dwClsContext  Guid riid    InnerException     And the debuger stopped at the constructor call    public MainWindow                         InitializeComponent                    Add handlers for Application activation events             AddActivationHandlers                   AssemblyParser parser   new AssemblyParser                  parser parse                   DirSearch   C  Users Roflcoptr Documents Visual Studio 2008 Projects TestClass dll                 I stopped right at the start of the constructor   public MainWindow

User · Accepted Answer

Your code  or some code called by you  is making a call to a COM method which is returning an unknown value  If you can find that then you re half way there   You could try breaking when the exception is thrown  Go to Debug   Exceptions    and use the Find    option to locate System Runtime InteropServices COMException  Tick the option to break when it s thrown and then debug your application   Hopefully it will break somewhere meaningful and you ll be able to trace back and find the source of the error

User · Answer

Probably you are trying to access the excel with the index 0  please note that Excel rows columns start from 1

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I came across System Runtime InteropServices COMException while opening a project solution  Sometimes user doesn t have enough priveleges to run some COM Methods  I ran Visual Studio as Administrator and the exception was gone

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I got this exception while coping a object variable  Matrix Array into Excel sheet  The solution to this is  Matrix array Index i j  must start from  0 0  whereas Excel sheet should start with Matrix Array index  i j  from  1 1     I hope you this concept

[c#] How to avoid a System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException?

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