Home/ Questions/Q 6147955
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-05-23T19:11:38+00:00

I converted my visual studio solution from 2008 to 2010. A project has a

  • 0

I converted my visual studio solution from 2008 to 2010. A project has a reference to ShDocVw. When I run the program I get a BadImageFormatException. Googling led me to check the interop library with corflags:

corflags Interop.ShDocVw.dll

Version   : v2.0.50727 
CLR Header: 2.5
PE        : PE32
CorFlags  : 3
ILONLY    : 1
32BIT     : 1
Signed    : 0

Sure enough, the 32BIT flag is set so my application built as Any CPU on 64-bit machine cannot load this library. If I run corflags /32BIT- I can turn off the 32BIT flag and everything works just fine. The question is, why is this Interop library generated with that flag set? I didn’t have that problem with VS2008, this only started happening after the upgrade.

More importantly, how can I fix it so that I don’t have to run corflags to turn the bit off? I assume that it is probably due to some MSBuild-fu that I don’t understand very well. I haven’t been able to spot anything, anyway.

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    The problem is that after the upgrade the <PlatformTarget> tag is not set in certain <PropertyGroups> in the C# project files and it apparently defaults to x86. So, to fix this go to the project Properties -> Build tab and set Platform Target to something other than AnyCPU, save it. Now set it back to AnyCPU and save it. The <PlatformTarget> will be written to the project with the value of AnyCPU and all is well.

    Here is where I found the answer.

    • 0