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Dan Evrard




Posts: 2
 Joined: 2013-08-16
Hello,

I'm working on upgrading an outlook add-in to Outlook 2013. However, when I instantiate the Interop.Outlook.Application object, I am getting this error message:

System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x80080005): Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {0006F03A-0000-0000-C000-000000000046} failed due to the following error: 80080005.

The code in question is this:
Dim outlookApplication As New MSOutlook.Application

From what I've gathered googling the issue, it seems that it could possibly be an issue with outlook not being run with the same user permissions as Visual Studio 2010. However, running outlook as administrator is not really an option for all of our clients, so I'm hoping there could be some other resolution to this issue.

Thanks,
Dan
Posted 16 Aug, 2013 10:02:31 Top
Andrei Smolin


Add-in Express team


Posts: 19226
 Joined: 2006-05-11
Hello Dan,

You will get this issue if you run VS using the "Run as administrator" option and Outlook is started without that option.

On the other hand, an Outlook add-in isn't expected to create new Outlook instances. Besides, New MSOutlook.Application creates a "non-trusted" Outlook.Application object and this may end with your add-in firing security warnings. You can get the correct Outlook.Application object using this code path: {project name e.g. MyAddin1}.AddinModule.CurrentInstance.OutlookApp.


Andrei Smolin
Add-in Express Team Leader
Posted 16 Aug, 2013 10:26:40 Top
Dan Evrard




Posts: 2
 Joined: 2013-08-16
That's exactly what I needed. Thank you!
Posted 16 Aug, 2013 10:55:53 Top