I have recently installed Microsoft Office 2013 beta release while having 2007 already installed. When I opened a COM based Excel interop application under Visual Studio 2008, I noticed a few warnings I didn’t have before. I tried to start compile the application and it still worked, but when I tried to use the feature that uses the Excel interop, I received an error.
I immediately uninstalled Office 2013 after that, but the error stayed. I messed around in the C:\Windows\assembly folder and still didn’t manage to fix it.
After that, I went ahead and uninstalled / reinstalled Office 2007. Still no luck. I uninstalled Office 2007 again, deleted all the assemblies regarding interop (including the Policy ones), reinstalled Office 2007. Still nothing.
I tried installing the PrimaryInteropAssembly. Also nothing.
I’m out of options… What can I do?
The application can still compile and will still work on other machines too. It’s really just my machine that cannot run it anymore.
This might be off topic, I’m not sure which Stack Exchange this kind of things will fit into, but since it’s related to programming without being actual code, I gave it a shot here. I think the people competent in this domain resides more in SO over SF
The warning in VS
Could not determine the dependencies of the COM reference “Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel”. Erreur lors du chargement de la bibliothèque/DLL du type. (Exception de HRESULT : 0x80029C4A (TYPE_E_CANTLOADLIBRARY))
(French part translation: “Error loading library / DLL type.”)
The error when running the application on the developpement machine
I got answered on Microsoft MSDN comunity forums. There is one registery key to remove.
Everything went back to normal after that.