I was having problems with running a .NET application under 64-bit Windows 7. This was because by default, .NET applications are built to target any platform. This app clearly hadn’t been tested on 64-bit Windows so blew up when it tried to instantiate a 32-bit COM object. The following link explains some of the options on how to fix this problem.
Obviously setting the platform target wasn’t an option for me since I didn’t have access to the source code. Using corflags.exe also wasn’t possible because the application was strong named so setting that flag would break the strong naming. So I was forced to create a wrapper application that was compiled for 32-bits. This initially also didn’t work but the only thing I needed to do was add the STAThread attribute to my wrapper’s Main method since the application I was calling also had this attribute on its Main method. Then it all worked, hurrah!
Now I just need to figure out how to do the same thing for a .NET service… And for all you .NET developers out there, if you don’t have the time or resources to test on 64-bit Windows, just flip that platform target switch to x86. Even the cheapest new PCs come with 64-bit versions of Windows (my laptop cost £400) and flipping that switch pretty much guarantees your app will work on 64-bit platforms.
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