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RajGaikwad
RajGaikwad
Participant
March 31, 2011
Question

InDesign CS4 type library Com reference is missing in visual studio 2008 in windows 7

  • March 31, 2011
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hi

i am trying to create InDesign CS4 COM object using vb.net as

indApp=CeateObject("InDesign.Application.CS4")

i checked in the visual studio 2008 ,and tried to add indesign reference but the reference is not available in the VS references Com section

i tried it by adding the Indesign CS4 DLL by from local drive but still it is not working

i have two systems one having OS windows XP and another is having Windows 7

the problem is in the system having windows XP my program is running fine but same program is giving an exception in the windows 7

i m getting the exception message as:

Unable to cast COM object of type 'System.__ComObject' to interface type 'InDesign.Application'. This operation failed because the QueryInterface call on the COM component for the interface with IID '{ABD4CBB2-0CFE-11D1-801D-0060B03C02E4}' failed due to the following error: No such interface supported (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80004002 (E_NOINTERFACE)).

please help me

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JohnDevlon
Inspiring
July 13, 2011

Hi,

Did anyone solve this issue?

A few years ago, I've wrote a small app that uses Indesign on XP. All these years it worked great. Now, we have migrated to windows 7 and the problems start. I've tried running both Indesign as my own app as administrator without any improvement.

Why are these problems happening in Windows 7?

Kind regards

John

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JohnDevlon
Inspiring
July 13, 2011

Hi,

I've tried turning on "Running in windows xp compatible mode" and then all things worked perfect again, like before.

Still, I would like to know why it's not running in Windows 7 native mode. Does anyone know?

John

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JohnDevlon
Inspiring
July 14, 2011

Hi,

Apparently I was spoken to to soon... Short running tasks run perfectly... Larger running tasks while result in freezing up the custom application and Indesign as well. Strange. Could there be a buffer limit on application running in XP compatible mode? Does anyone have experience in using indesign from Visual Studio on Windows 7. Any help would be greath.

John

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