Windows error 0x8001010A, -2147417846

Attach a second process to VS2010 programmatically with .NET

I have a solution in visual studio 2010 that contains 2 projects, one is a C# console application, which I will refer to as Foo, and the other is a CLR C++ console application, which I will refer to as Bar. Bar is an exe not a dll. When the [...] read more

how to solve The message filter indicated that the application is busy. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8001010A (RPC_E_SERVERCALL_RETRYLATER)) asp.net mvc

I ran my code in Visual Studio 2010. It works fine when I publish my application. In Windows Server 2003 IIS6.0 I get an exception. > The message filter indicated that the application is busy. (Exception from > HRESULT: 0x8001010A (RPC_E_SERVERCALL_RETRYLATER)) asp.net mvc My code is here: public ActionResult Getfile(int [...] read more

C# Excel interop - how to test if interop object is still working and performing a task?

I am looping through a directory of several hundered excel files and trying to refresh the excel files one at a time. I keep getting this error which indicates that the refresh operation is still running on File A, for example, and FileB is trying to start a refresh operation. [...] read more

DSOFramer closing Excel doc in another window. If unsaved data in file, dsoframer fails to open with "Attempt to access invalid address"

I'm using Microsoft's DSOFramer control to allow me to embed an Excel file in my dialog so the user can choose his sheet, then select his range of cells; it's used with an import button on my dialog. The problem is that when I call the DSOFramer's OPEN function, if [...] read more

Error closing Word doc: "The message filter indicated that the application is busy."

I'm using Microsoft Interop to save a Word Doc as an HTML file, and I'm getting this error when I try to close the document: > The message filter indicated that the application is busy. (Exception from > HRESULT: 0x8001010A (RPC_E_SERVERCALL_RETRYLATER)) Here's my code: // word interop setting object visible [...] read more

Using Interop Library for Web Server Side Excel Creation

I am trying to create excel files using interop library, but below is the error I get: Creating an instance of the COM component with CLSID {00024500-0000-0000- C000-000000000046} from the IClassFactory failed due to the following error: 8001010a The message filter indicated that the application is busy. (Exception from HRESULT: [...] read more

Unable to run Console Application from Visual Studio: System.AccessViolationException

DESCRIPTION When launching any Console Application, the code stops running immediately on an AccessViolationException (Additional information: Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt). More info included in the next section. TECHNICAL SYMPTOMS The Call Stack only contains external code: > [...] read more

System.UnauthorizedAccessException only using multithreading

I wrote a code to parse some Web tables. I get some web tables into an IHTMLElementCollection using Internet Explorer with this code: TabWeb = IE.document.getelementsbytagname("table") Then I use a sub who gets an object containing the IHTMLElementCollection and some other data: Private Sub TblParsing(ByVal ArrVal() As Object) Dim WTab [...] read more

DCOM Config settings for Microsoft Interop Word Automation

I am using Microsoft Office Interop Word to generate documents using C#. In order for the document generation to work, there should be an entry for the "Microsoft Office Word 97 - 2003 Document" under the Dcom Config Settings as shown below: enter image description here [https://i.stack.imgur.com/fDrld.jpg] The Local Path [...] read more

Why parallelized code will not write in an Excel spreadsheet?

Writing many worksheets in an Excel spreadsheet can take a while. Parallelizing it would be helpful. This code works well, it makes an Excel spreadsheet pop on the screen with four worksheets named Sheet1,1, 2, and 3. open Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel open FSharp.Collections.ParallelSeq let backtestWorksheets = [1..3] let app = new ApplicationClass(Visible [...] read more

Processing large Excel files using multiple threads

I am using c# VSTO and Interop lib for developing excel add-in. for validating each cell's value before pasting these values into another workbook with formatting. My actual query is to process, (in fastest possible way) cells with some criteria. I have used WorkSheet.Cells.SpecialCells() for getting Excel.Range objects of my [...] read more

Windows Anniversary Update (1607) & ComException

I have an application (C#) which uses ComInterop to manipulate and print documents from a 3rd Party App (Corel Draw x8). After Updating to Windows 1607 (Anniversary Update), things stop working immediately with creating my object (cdr = new CorelDRAW.Application();), or with the next line (hiding CorelDraw's window) with an [...] read more

Excel file operations using interop in multithreaded C# application fails

I've an application that automates some file related jobs. Every job is executed inside separate threads. One kind of job is exporting an Excel file to HTML format. I use Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel namespace for this purpose. My application was working fine under Windows Server 2008 environment but we upgraded our server [...] read more

Excel Interop Apply Chart Template

Problem Overview: I am automating the report generation (excel) for a customer using C# with "native" excel support (microsoft.office.interop.excel) and the EPPlus library. My customer is not very flexible about charts design so my charts must have the exact same style as theirs. No problem, i exported their chart templates [...] read more

"Cannot find file" error during T4 template compilation

I've customized a T4 template in Visual Studio 2012, and while building I'm getting the following error message: Error 54 Running transformation: System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x80004005): Cannot find file "E:\xxx\yyy\zzz\Sqlite\SqliteUser.cs". Server stack trace: at EnvDTE.ProjectItems.AddFromFile(String FileName) at Microsoft.VisualStudio.TextTemplatingEC6A2B3A41C616DAF7A733C5085314E2C3F5CE23DBE80E719FD33995883D5E510F37A17C37D9079D1256CDE20C927D612B6A821F33CC97A0D9F806591BA9D314.GeneratedTextTransformation.EntityFrameworkTemplateFileManager.VsEntityFrameworkTemplateFileManager.ProjectSync(ProjectItem templateProjectItem, IEnumerable`1 keepFileNames) at Microsoft.VisualStudio.TextTemplatingEC6A2B3A41C616DAF7A733C5085314E2C3F5CE23DBE80E719FD33995883D5E510F37A17C37D9079D1256CDE20C927D612B6A821F33CC97A0D9F806591BA9D314.GeneratedTextTransformation.EntityFrameworkTemplateFileManager.VsEntityFrameworkTemplateFileManager.<.ctor>b__6a(IEnumerable`1 keepFileNames) at System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.StackBuilderSink._PrivateProcessMessage(IntPtr md, Object[] args, Object server, Object[]& [...] read more

The message filter indicated that the application is busy, while using multiple webbrowsers controls at a time

Thanks for your time, i am creating an application which will take 5 URL's from database and then navigate each in 5 browser-controls respectively. This activity is done in "background worker control's do work function". On first time load of this window form, everything goes fine, i am having a [...] read more

MS office word component runs only if the server is logged on with the same identity

I have a webservices running on a server, which converts word document into pdf using word automation. I have given a windows network user account in the identity tab on the MS Office word component using the DCOMCNFG.exe. I am getting below mentioned error Exception Message: The message filter indicated [...] read more

Trapping COM exception in F#

I have some F# code that calls a method on a COM Automation object. Sometimes that COM object throws an exception. I tried wrapping the calls to the COM object in a try...with block: try do some COM stuff with _ -> Printf.printf "got an exn\r\n" But the exception-handling code [...] read more

Why is my application running OK manually, but when I run it in Task Scheduler, it errors out?

I have an application that works on my old Windows 2008 R2 server in Task Scheduler very nicely. It reads data from one web service and then writes some data to another Web Service (so it needs network access). It has been running equally well in Explorer or in Task [...] read more

System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x8001010A): The message filter indicated that the application is busy

I'm executing SQL Queries and saving the results in Excel using NUnit Framework and C# I'm using ThreadPool which calls writeToFile function which opens the excel workbook, excel worksheet and writes all the data from DataAdapter to excel cell by cell. My code is as below foreach (string[] SQLQueries in [...] read more

Visual Studio 2017 - Message filter indicated that the application is busy

I'm porting over a small console application that deletes files on disk that are not in a Visual Studio project. This code worked in Visual Studio 2013, but I'm receiving the following error when I ran it in Visual Studio 2017: > System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException: 'The message filter indicated > that the [...] read more

Excel DNA resize return array vertically

I am trying to return dynamic array with help of Excel-DNA api. I am able to produce desired output. But I want to produce output in vertical . here is the c# code for my UDF. i have used this link for producing my sample. http://excel-dna.net/2011/01/30/resizing-excel-udf-result-arrays/ Below code produces this [...] read more

Exception for powerpoint Interop while reading slides

I have a block of code which reads powerpoint slides and creates xml for them.Everything is working fine on my local machine.but on server,when second slide is read.I Get the exception: EXCEPTION:The message filter indicated that the application is busy. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8001010A (RPC_E_SERVERCALL_RETRYLATER)) for Powerpoint Interop Function Throwing [...] read more

Creating PPT with Perl - error 0x8001010a "application is busy"

actually I'm writing a Perl script for creating a powerpoint presentation automatically. The reason for this is, that I need really much Slides with the same look. So I always copy the first slide and just update the text in the boxes with new text out of a excel file. [...] read more

Creating new VS2015 solutions with 2 projects programmatically using C#

I am using the following code to try to programmatically create Visual Studio 2015 projects on the fly from within an existing Console Application. Why you ask? We are putting together a library of all our code snippets and we want a test/proof test solution for each one, and since [...] read more

VSTO Cancel Workbook Open event by sending Keystroke

When a large file (lets say a csv file greater than 50MB) is opened in Microsoft Excel, it opens with a little progress bar in the bottom right corner of the screen and it says "Press ESC to cancel". If you press the ESC key while the file is opening, [...] read more

Error:-(Exception from HRESULT: 0x8001010A (RPC_E_SERVERCALL_RETRYLATER))

I am getting the following error while debugging my Windows Form Application for generating an excel sheet: Application is Busy. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8001010A (RPC_E_SERVERCALL_RETRYLATER)). I have gone thoroughly through the code and have not found any errors. An internet search suggests the problem is in Microsoft.Office.Interop.dll. How can I [...] read more

Perl Excel OLE error opening different files from two scripts simultanesouly

Trying to open and write data into two different excel files from separate perl scripts but simultaneously. It doesn't throw any error if run one after other. But while running simultaneously it one of the script terminates with following error. entering No Error excel new created! Win32::OLE(0.1709) error 0x8001010a: "The [...] read more

Get all projects fron solution throws error

I am in debugging, I got the reference to current solution as DTE2. (as from "adabyron") I often got the following error when I tried foreach loop on vsSolution.Projects: > The message filter indicated that the application is busy. (Exception from > HRESULT: 0x8001010A (RPC_E_SERVERCALL_RETRYLATER)) Click continue, I can still [...] read more

Can sort the Excel tables in multi-thread?

My codes as follow: Parallel.ForEach(listSheets, (xlWorkSheet1) => { // Excel.Worksheet xlWorkSheet1 = (Excel.Worksheet)excelbk.Worksheets["Sheet1"]; xlRange = (Excel.Range)xlWorkSheet1.Cells[xlWorkSheet1.Rows.Count, 1]; lock (xlRange) { // nRows = (long)xlRange.get_End(Excel.XlDirection.xlUp).Row; nRows = xlWorkSheet1.UsedRange.Cells.Rows.Count; xlRange = (Excel.Range)xlWorkSheet1.Rows["5:" + nRows, Type.Missing]; xlRange.Sort(xlRange.Columns[clnum1, Type.Missing], Excel.XlSortOrder.xlAscending, xlRange.Columns[clnum2, Type.Missing], Type.Missing, Excel.XlSortOrder.xlAscending, Type.Missing, Excel.XlSortOrder.xlAscending, Excel.XlYesNoGuess.xlNo, Type.Missing, Type.Missing, Excel.XlSortOrientation.xlSortColumns, Excel.XlSortMethod.xlStroke, Excel.XlSortDataOption.xlSortTextAsNumbers, Excel.XlSortDataOption.xlSortNormal, Excel.XlSortDataOption.xlSortNormal); [...] read more

RPC_E_SERVERCALL_RETRYLATER during powershell automation

I'm using PowersHell to automate iTunes but find the error handling / waiting for com objects handling to be less than optimal. Example code #Cause an RPC error $iTunes = New-Object -ComObject iTunes.Application $LibrarySource = $iTunes.LibrarySource # Get "playlist" objects for main sections foreach ($PList in $LibrarySource.Playlists) { if($Plist.name -eq [...] read more

itgenuty530: The document property 'INVANTIVE_REPOSITORY' can not be accessed since Excel is busy calculating

When opening a spreadsheet with Exact Online formulas and Invantive Control blocks I receive the following error: itgenuty530: The document property 'INVANTIVE_REPOSITORY' can not be accessed since Excel is busy calculating. It also says: HRESULT: 0x8001010A (RPC_E_SERVERCALL_RETRYLATER) After clicking a number of times on OK, the data is retrieved. How [...] read more

GetIDsOfNames always fails with RPC_E_SERVERCALL_RETRYLATER for getting a property ID in Photoshop

I wrote the following C++ code, trying to perform some OLE automation tasks for currently-running Photoshop: IUnknown* unk = NULL; IDispatch* disp = NULL; CLSID clsId; if (FAILED(CLSIDFromProgID(L"Photoshop.Application", &clsId))) goto err; puts("CLSIDFromProgID succeeded"); if (FAILED(GetActiveObject(&clsId, NULL, &unk))) goto err; puts("GetActiveObject succeeded"); if (FAILED(IUnknown_QueryInterface(unk, &IID_IDispatch, (void**)&disp))) goto err; puts("QueryInterface succeeded"); DISPID [...] read more

Create in-memory Excel file and open it in Excel without using COM Interop

I'm currently using COM Interop in .NET to export the contents of a DataTable to Excel. It's a method I've been using for years, but the problem is that COM is sketchy and throws random, intermittent, untraceable exceptions. This hasn't been a huge issue, since it's always just been code [...] read more

How can I prevent "Application is busy" errors when merging multiple Word documents in VB.net?

I am working in Visual Studio (VB.net) and have created an application that queries our database (SQL Server 2008), and then performs effectively a Word mail merge (of my own design) to create one output document containing a series of legal documents, each using a different template (*.dot). The documents [...] read more

How to reliably add projects to solution programmatically

The key word here is "reliably". When I create solution and add few projects I will get an exception: Unhandled Exception: System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException: The message filter indicated that the application is busy. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8001010A (RPC_E_SERVERCALL_RETRYLATER)) at EnvDTE.Project.get_Object() As ugly hack I added Thread.Sleep to avoid timeouts and this works, [...] read more

In Excel Interop.Excel why would PivotField.ShowDetail = false throws exception?

I have a code which tries to Collapse Entire Field. At the very beginning of the foreach loop (with Worksheet), it crashes stating > Exception thrown: 'System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException' in > CSVDiffUtility.exe > > Additional information: The message filter indicated that the application is > busy. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8001010A (RPC_E_SERVERCALL_RETRYLATER)) Did [...] read more

0x8001010A (RPC_E_SERVERCALL_RETRYLATER)) exception occurs when creating object of Excel in c#

I am working on an excutable written in C#, which basically opens an existing Excel file (in C# using Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel dll) and do some manipulation over it. Code works fine for my user account, but when I run the same code under a different user(admin role) then it throws an [...] read more

Excel automation in windows service

I just finished with excel automation on my windows console application and it works. Now i want to move it to windows service, but i faced an error, which dont kno how to solve. When i run my application i get this error in my log file: System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x8001010A): The [...] read more

Multiple AxWindowsMediaPlayer controls exception: System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException' in AxInterop.WMPLib.dll

Developing a winforms C# 4.5 on Win10 that creates multiple AxWindowsMediaPlayer control objects dynamically on Form1 (the only form). Relative code segments look like this: axWMPn[zi] = new AxWindowsMediaPlayer(); ((ISupportInitialize)(axWMPn[zi])).BeginInit(); axWMPn[zi].Name = "Zone " + zi; //Zone name + index axWMPn[zi].Tag = "Z" + zi; // "Z" + Zone index [...] read more

Exporting to Excel Showing (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8001010A (RPC_E_SERVERCALL_RETRYLATER))

am using Microsoft office 2013 office professional. so when am trying to export data from c# to Excel it shows the following error. > The message filter indicated that the application is busy. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8001010A (RPC_E_SERVERCALL_RETRYLATER)) but when am using the office 2007 there is no issue with [...] read more

C#/.NET Multi-threaded Task, Playing multiple WAV files with WindowsMediaPlay ERROR

Hi guys I'm working on a species counterpoint generator using Genetic Algorithms, I've used windows media play to play individual melody but I use a multithreaded solution for playing 2 melodies at same time (PlayMelodies()) but I get this error message (below) any help would be realy appreciated EDIT: It [...] read more

Starting a new Outlook 2007 Message from C# .NET

I'm looking for the most barebones complete example, to launch Outlook 2007 with a new message started via C# .NET (I happen to be using VS2008 .NET 3.0) Here's what I'm trying: using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; using Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook; namespace CreateMessage { class Program { static void Main ( [...] read more

WMPLib Console app exception on media play

I am not used to using InteropServices but what I am doing is using WMPLib to play songs from a console application. The application works as expected when I debug it from Visual Studio. But it crashes and gives me the following exception: Unhandled Exception: System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException: The message filter indicated [...] read more

Exporting Data to Word Doc using IIS on Windows Server 2008 R2 fails

> Creating an instance of the COM component with CLSID > {00020906-0000-0000-C000-000000000046} from the IClassFactory failed due to > the following error: 8001010a The message filter indicated that the > application is busy. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8001010A > (RPC_E_SERVERCALL_RETRYLATER)). I get the above error message on my Windows 2008 Server [...] read more

Trying fetch data from word document?

i am trying fetch data from word document using string Mainer(string pathfile) { Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Application word = new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Application(); object miss = System.Reflection.Missing.Value; object path = pathfile; object readOnly = true; Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Document docs = word.Documents.Open(ref path, ref miss, ref readOnly, ref miss, ref miss, ref miss, ref miss, ref miss, ref [...] read more

The message filter indicated that the application is busy

When I try to read content of word doc by oWordDoc.Content, It throws exception: > The message filter indicated that the application is busy. (Exception from > HRESULT: 0x8001010A (RPC_E_SERVERCALL_RETRYLATER)) I tried OApplication.Visible = false, It also did not work. read more

How to change item properties programmatically (Content Processor XNA 4.0 )?

I need to change the content processor of my models programmatically or the fbx file property (XNA Framework Content Pipeline->Content Processor) from the solution/project because of the custom content processor. And that's all because I want the user who uses this program to add his skinned model and change this [...] read more

Error automating Word on Test Server

I am trying to open a Word document from a .Net web application. The code (in brief) contains ... using Word = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word; using System.Reflection; and, the code that actually creates the document includes: object oMissing = System.Reflection.Missing.Value; object oEndOfDoc = "\\endofdoc"; // \endofdoc is a predefined bookmark object oTemplate [...] read more

Running Word from a SharePoint Workflow

based on Join MS Word documents I have made a console application that splices multiple word files into one. Now I want to do the same from a Workflow in SharePoint. In short, my code before it fails looks like this: object oMissing = System.Reflection.Missing.Value; Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.ApplicationClass oWord = new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.ApplicationClass(); [...] read more