"José Ramón Rodríguez" <jrrodriguez@multicorpora.ca> wrote in message
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> Hello there,
>
> The following code causes "Specified cast is not valid" exception when
line
> 3
> executes inside an ASP.NET application. I have tried this with several
> components. Exactly the same code works if
> connecting locally (i.e with localhost) and it always works from a Windows
> Forms application even if connecting to another computer.
>
> Here is the code:
>
> Type type = Type.GetTypeFromProgID("CorporaServer.CorporaAppServer",
> "RemoteServer");
> Object objTest = Activator.CreateInstance(type);
> CorporaAppServer CorporaServerObj = (CorporaAppServer)objTest; //
exception
> "Specified cast is not valid" raised here
>
> Anybody knows why this could happen? Thanks in advance,
>
> Jose R. Rodríguez
>
>
>
>

"enrico sabbadin @ infinito" <sabbadin@infinito_xyz.it> wrote in message
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> looks like tehre are some issues with type library registration / interop
> assembly ..
> In windows forms it works likely because there is no marshaling taking
> place.
>
>
> "José Ramón Rodríguez" <jrrodriguez@multicorpora.ca> wrote in message
> news:Ok8Mb#wzDHA.1736@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> > Hello there,
> >
> > The following code causes "Specified cast is not valid" exception when
> line
> > 3
> > executes inside an ASP.NET application. I have tried this with several
> > components. Exactly the same code works if
> > connecting locally (i.e with localhost) and it always works from a
Windows
> > Forms application even if connecting to another computer.
> >
> > Here is the code:
> >
> > Type type = Type.GetTypeFromProgID("CorporaServer.CorporaAppServer",
> > "RemoteServer");
> > Object objTest = Activator.CreateInstance(type);
> > CorporaAppServer CorporaServerObj = (CorporaAppServer)objTest; //
> exception
> > "Specified cast is not valid" raised here
> >
> > Anybody knows why this could happen? Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Jose R. Rodríguez
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>

"José Ramón Rodríguez" <pepe@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:e7Rax540DHA.1676@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Hello Enrico, thanks for answering. My Windows forms application is a .NET
> application also so I figure it would be doing the same marshalling that
is
> done when using COM objects from an ASP.NET application, it's all .NET
> right?

>
> I later tested with a Web application in my little network at home and it
> worked well, I figure it must be just some configuration problem either in
> the COM+ application or in the ASP.NET application. My network at home has
> no domain controller and the settings of the COM+ application were
> different, I'll try this this morning at work.
>
> Thanks again for answering,

>
> Jose R.
>
> "enrico sabbadin @ infinito" <sabbadin@infinito_xyz.it> wrote in message
> news:uTT7Ijy0DHA.4060@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> > looks like tehre are some issues with type library registration /
interop
> > assembly ..
> > In windows forms it works likely because there is no marshaling taking
> > place.
> >
> >
> > "José Ramón Rodríguez" <jrrodriguez@multicorpora.ca> wrote in message
> > news:Ok8Mb#wzDHA.1736@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> > > Hello there,
> > >
> > > The following code causes "Specified cast is not valid" exception when
> > line
> > > 3
> > > executes inside an ASP.NET application. I have tried this with several
> > > components. Exactly the same code works if
> > > connecting locally (i.e with localhost) and it always works from a
> Windows
> > > Forms application even if connecting to another computer.
> > >
> > > Here is the code:
> > >
> > > Type type = Type.GetTypeFromProgID("CorporaServer.CorporaAppServer",
> > > "RemoteServer");
> > > Object objTest = Activator.CreateInstance(type);
> > > CorporaAppServer CorporaServerObj = (CorporaAppServer)objTest; //
> > exception
> > > "Specified cast is not valid" raised here
> > >
> > > Anybody knows why this could happen? Thanks in advance,
> > >
> > > Jose R. Rodríguez
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>