Question

I created a solution in visual studio 2008 on windows 7, 64 bit.

It works.

When I move it onto another machine, also win 7, 64 bit, it crashed with almost no information.

The original issue was this:

call was rejected by callee

I then implemented this solution:

how to properly GetTypeFromProgID for visual studio 2008

However, now my issue is that when I run the executable on a different machine, the program is crashing immediately with the following information:

Description:
  Stopped working

Problem signature:
  Problem Event Name:   APPCRASH
  Application Name: EmailSalesVolumeSolution.exe
  Application Version:  1.0.0.0
  Application Timestamp:    508064dd
  Fault Module Name:    KERNELBASE.dll
  Fault Module Version: 6.1.7601.17932
  Fault Module Timestamp:   503285c2
  Exception Code:   e0434f4d
  Exception Offset: 000000000000caed
  OS Version:   6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
  Locale ID:    1033

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I wrapped the code in a try/catch, and still did not get a proper error message:

static void Main()
{
    try
    {
        EnvDTE80.DTE2 dte;
        object obj = null;
        System.Type t = null;

        // Get the ProgID for DTE 8.0.
        t = System.Type.GetTypeFromProgID("VisualStudio.DTE.9.0",
          true);
        // Create a new instance of the IDE.
        obj = System.Activator.CreateInstance(t, true);
        // Cast the instance to DTE2 and assign to variable dte.
        dte = (EnvDTE80.DTE2)obj;

        // Register the IOleMessageFilter to handle any threading
        // errors.
        MessageFilter.Register();
        // Display the Visual Studio IDE.
        dte.MainWindow.Activate();


        Application.EnableVisualStyles();
        Application.SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault(false);

        Application.Run(new Form1());

        // For example, get a reference to the solution2 object
        // and do what you like with it.

        // All done, so shut down the IDE...
        dte.Quit();
        // and turn off the IOleMessageFilter.
        MessageFilter.Revoke();

    }
    catch (Exception e)
    {
        MessageBox.Show(e.ToString());
    }
}

How can I identify where exactly the exception occurred and WHAT IS the exception?

I do have some unmanaged code:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using EnvDTE;
using EnvDTE80;
using EnvDTE90;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

namespace EmailSalesVolumeSolution
{
    public class MessageFilter : IOleMessageFilter
    {
        //
        // Class containing the IOleMessageFilter
        // thread error-handling functions.

        // Start the filter.
        public static void Register()
        {
            IOleMessageFilter newFilter = new MessageFilter();
            IOleMessageFilter oldFilter = null;
            CoRegisterMessageFilter(newFilter, out oldFilter);
        }

        // Done with the filter, close it.
        public static void Revoke()
        {
            IOleMessageFilter oldFilter = null;
            CoRegisterMessageFilter(null, out oldFilter);
        }

        //
        // IOleMessageFilter functions.
        // Handle incoming thread requests.
        int IOleMessageFilter.HandleInComingCall(int dwCallType,
          System.IntPtr hTaskCaller, int dwTickCount, System.IntPtr
          lpInterfaceInfo)
        {
            //Return the flag SERVERCALL_ISHANDLED.
            return 0;
        }

        // Thread call was rejected, so try again.
        int IOleMessageFilter.RetryRejectedCall(System.IntPtr
          hTaskCallee, int dwTickCount, int dwRejectType)
        {
            if (dwRejectType == 2)
            // flag = SERVERCALL_RETRYLATER.
            {
                // Retry the thread call immediately if return >=0 & 
                // <100.
                return 99;
            }
            // Too busy; cancel call.
            return -1;
        }

        int IOleMessageFilter.MessagePending(System.IntPtr hTaskCallee,
          int dwTickCount, int dwPendingType)
        {
            //Return the flag PENDINGMSG_WAITDEFPROCESS.
            return 2;
        }

        // Implement the IOleMessageFilter interface.
        [DllImport("Ole32.dll")]
        private static extern int
          CoRegisterMessageFilter(IOleMessageFilter newFilter, out 
          IOleMessageFilter oldFilter);
    }
    [ComImport(), Guid("00000016-0000-0000-C000-000000000046"),
    InterfaceTypeAttribute(ComInterfaceType.InterfaceIsIUnknown)]
    interface IOleMessageFilter
    {
        [PreserveSig]
        int HandleInComingCall(
            int dwCallType,
            IntPtr hTaskCaller,
            int dwTickCount,
            IntPtr lpInterfaceInfo);

        [PreserveSig]
        int RetryRejectedCall(
            IntPtr hTaskCallee,
            int dwTickCount,
            int dwRejectType);

        [PreserveSig]
        int MessagePending(
            IntPtr hTaskCallee,
            int dwTickCount,
            int dwPendingType);
    }
}

after installing VS 2008 express on the machine that gave me trouble, i am now getting this:

Answer 1

The only solution that worked was installing Visual studio. As soon as it was installed, I got the exact exception.