Posts Categorized: Office Interoperability

Retrieving the COM class factory for component failed due to the following error: 800702e4.

Posted by & filed under .Net, .Net 4.0, Office Interoperability, Visual Studio, Windows Forms.

While working on some outlook C# application I got a COM exception like this. Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {0006F03A-0000-0000-C000-000000000046} failed due to the following error: 80080005. My code was simply straight forward, I was just creating the instance of the outlook application. And this code was used in a different [...]

Covert PowerPoint Slides to Images

Posted by & filed under .Net, .Net 3.0 / 3.5, Office Interoperability.

Today one of my colleague comes with a problem; he want to display a Powerpoint presentation in his Sharepoint site. But we didn’t got any direct way to display it. They we tweaked the code, to export the Slides to images and display it using the a custom slideshow web part, like the AjaxToolkit slideshow [...]