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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://msmvps.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd"><channel><title>SSMS - Unable to cast COM object of type 'System.__ComObject' to interface type 'Microsoft .VisualStudio .OLE .Interop .IServiceProvider'. Exception from HRESULT: 0x80004002 (E_NOINTERFACE))</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/martinpoon/archive/2009/03/20/ssms-unable-to-cast-com-object-of-type-system-comobject-to-interface-type-microsoft-visualstudio-ole-interop-iserviceprovider-exception-from-hresult-0x80004002-e-nointerface.aspx</link><description>I am working on Windows Server 2008 SP1 Datacenter Edition 64-bit , with SQL Server 2008 installed. After installing Windows IE8, I got the following error upon starting SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 2008. ===== Error 0x80004002 ===== SSMS - Unable</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2008.5 SP2 (Build: 40407.4157)</generator><item><title>re: SSMS - Unable to cast COM object of type 'System.__ComObject' to interface type 'Microsoft .VisualStudio .OLE .Interop .IServiceProvider'. Exception from HRESULT: 0x80004002 (E_NOINTERFACE))</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/martinpoon/archive/2009/03/20/ssms-unable-to-cast-com-object-of-type-system-comobject-to-interface-type-microsoft-visualstudio-ole-interop-iserviceprovider-exception-from-hresult-0x80004002-e-nointerface.aspx#1703791</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:23:20 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:1703791</guid><dc:creator>JS Cole</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;ROFL...&amp;quot;Somehow the registry got corrupted&amp;quot;. Somehow = Microsoft&amp;#39;s failed regression testing&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Somehow indeed. I had the same problem after installing VS2008 after installing SSMS 2008, but this fix solved the issue.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1703791" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: SSMS - Unable to cast COM object of type 'System.__ComObject' to interface type 'Microsoft .VisualStudio .OLE .Interop .IServiceProvider'. Exception from HRESULT: 0x80004002 (E_NOINTERFACE))</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/martinpoon/archive/2009/03/20/ssms-unable-to-cast-com-object-of-type-system-comobject-to-interface-type-microsoft-visualstudio-ole-interop-iserviceprovider-exception-from-hresult-0x80004002-e-nointerface.aspx#1700949</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:35:18 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:1700949</guid><dc:creator>Jijesh V R</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;i was also facing the same problem. And it worked for me:)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thanks&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Jijesh&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1700949" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: SSMS - Unable to cast COM object of type 'System.__ComObject' to interface type 'Microsoft .VisualStudio .OLE .Interop .IServiceProvider'. Exception from HRESULT: 0x80004002 (E_NOINTERFACE))</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/martinpoon/archive/2009/03/20/ssms-unable-to-cast-com-object-of-type-system-comobject-to-interface-type-microsoft-visualstudio-ole-interop-iserviceprovider-exception-from-hresult-0x80004002-e-nointerface.aspx#1699231</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:22:21 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:1699231</guid><dc:creator>Rejishankar</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;I was having the same problem for quite some time and many websites suggested me to re-install the whole itself... but this fix worked for me and it took hardly few mins... &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thanks,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1699231" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: SSMS - Unable to cast COM object of type 'System.__ComObject' to interface type 'Microsoft .VisualStudio .OLE .Interop .IServiceProvider'. Exception from HRESULT: 0x80004002 (E_NOINTERFACE))</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/martinpoon/archive/2009/03/20/ssms-unable-to-cast-com-object-of-type-system-comobject-to-interface-type-microsoft-visualstudio-ole-interop-iserviceprovider-exception-from-hresult-0x80004002-e-nointerface.aspx#1696355</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:12:03 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:1696355</guid><dc:creator>Nabin</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;I am having same problem with &amp;quot;wuapi.dll&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;i have published the application and this is working fine in my application but same is throwing below exception when tried to rn from remote system [with LAN]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;************** Exception Text **************&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;System.InvalidCastException: Unable to cast COM object of type &amp;#39;System.__ComObject&amp;#39; to interface type &amp;#39;WUApiLib.UpdateSearcher&amp;#39;. This operation failed because the QueryInterface call on the COM component for the interface with IID &amp;#39;{04C6895D-EAF2-4034-97F3-311DE9BE413A}&amp;#39; failed due to the following error: No such interface supported (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80004002 (E_NOINTERFACE)).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &amp;nbsp; at WindowsUpdateScannerClient.WindowsUpdateScanner.button1_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &amp;nbsp; at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick(EventArgs e)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &amp;nbsp; at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &amp;nbsp; at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mevent)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &amp;nbsp; at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message&amp;amp; m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &amp;nbsp; at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message&amp;amp; m)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &amp;nbsp; at System.Windows.Forms.ButtonBase.WndProc(Message&amp;amp; m)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &amp;nbsp; at System.Windows.Forms.Button.WndProc(Message&amp;amp; m)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &amp;nbsp; at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message&amp;amp; m)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &amp;nbsp; at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message&amp;amp; m)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &amp;nbsp; at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1696355" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: SSMS - Unable to cast COM object of type 'System.__ComObject' to interface type 'Microsoft .VisualStudio .OLE .Interop .IServiceProvider'. Exception from HRESULT: 0x80004002 (E_NOINTERFACE))</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/martinpoon/archive/2009/03/20/ssms-unable-to-cast-com-object-of-type-system-comobject-to-interface-type-microsoft-visualstudio-ole-interop-iserviceprovider-exception-from-hresult-0x80004002-e-nointerface.aspx#1695417</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 08:04:02 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:1695417</guid><dc:creator>ANGGAMG</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;thnx, this works for me&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1695417" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: SSMS - Unable to cast COM object of type 'System.__ComObject' to interface type 'Microsoft .VisualStudio .OLE .Interop .IServiceProvider'. Exception from HRESULT: 0x80004002 (E_NOINTERFACE))</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/martinpoon/archive/2009/03/20/ssms-unable-to-cast-com-object-of-type-system-comobject-to-interface-type-microsoft-visualstudio-ole-interop-iserviceprovider-exception-from-hresult-0x80004002-e-nointerface.aspx#1685135</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:10:07 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:1685135</guid><dc:creator>Martin Poon</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Saanj, see if executing the following commands for registering the DLL and OCX files help.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;for %1 in (%windir%\system32\*.dll) do regsvr32 /s %1&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;for %1 in (%windir%\system32\*.ocx) do regsvr32 /s %1&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1685135" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: SSMS - Unable to cast COM object of type 'System.__ComObject' to interface type 'Microsoft .VisualStudio .OLE .Interop .IServiceProvider'. Exception from HRESULT: 0x80004002 (E_NOINTERFACE))</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/martinpoon/archive/2009/03/20/ssms-unable-to-cast-com-object-of-type-system-comobject-to-interface-type-microsoft-visualstudio-ole-interop-iserviceprovider-exception-from-hresult-0x80004002-e-nointerface.aspx#1685110</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:19:55 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:1685110</guid><dc:creator>Saanj</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Hi,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I am also having the same issue when I am going to create a custom rendering extension for ssrs. Registering actprxy.dll did not help me in my case. Please share if you have any idea.&lt;/p&gt;
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