October, 2012

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Soumitra Mondal's WebLog

Setup.exe is not a valid Win32 application

Posted 7 months ago

by Soumitra Mondal
- 11 Comments
You would receive the below error message while running a ClickOnce bootstrapper created using Visual Studio 2012 on Windows XP systems. Clickonce bootstrapper engine (setup.exe) that was shipped with Visual Studio 2012 is NOT compatible...
Soumitra Mondal's WebLog

Unable to cast COM object of type 'System.__ComObject' to interface type 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.OLE.Interop.IServiceProvider'.

Posted 7 months ago

by Soumitra Mondal
- 2 Comments
While launching Visual Studio 2012/2010 IDE, you might receive the below error message or VS IDE may just crash without any error message. I launched the devenv.exe in the debugger ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg463009 ) and took...