VS2015, Vb.Net, "Cannot create ActiveX component"

[rwayneross]

I've been using dMCScripting for years on my site, but now that I'm moving to a 64-bit host, I'm having problems with it.

Basically, I have Visual Studio 2015 developing on Widows 10. When developing local I get "Cannot create ActiveX component" whenever I try to create the scripting object. I have verified that it appears as a COM reference, that it's registered with regsvr32, that it appears in regedit and that is is the 64-bit dll.

I don't get the error on the Server 2012 R2 box, but I am not getting back any tags with ReadIDTag so I'm trying to troubleshoot locally. I have tried 14 Ref, 14.4 Ref, 15.0 Ref and now 16.0 Ref.

Simple code:

Private Sub test_Load(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
Dim Element(1000) As String, Value(1000) As String

Dim FullPath As String = Server.MapPath("~/2016/20160827_16-35/20160827-11_128k-44h-S.mp3")
Dim dMC As DMCSCRIPTINGLib.Converter = CreateObject("dMCScripting.Converter")
For i As Integer = 0 To 1000
Element(i) = ""
Value(i) = ""

Call dMC.ReadIDTag(FullPath, i, Element(i), Value(i))
If Element(i) = "" Then Exit For
If Element(i) = "Album" Then Me.output.InnerHtml &= "_AlbumTitle: " & Value(i) & "<br />"
Next

End Sub

Error message in attachment.

BTW, before you suggest it, VS 2015 doesn't have the option to build for x64, only "Any CPU".


Any help would be appreciated.

[Spoon]

Re: VS2015, Vb.Net, &quot;Cannot create ActiveX component&quot;

We only have VS 2013, when creating a Windows forms application, it does have the x64 option under: Settings >> Build >> Platform Target.

[mville]

Re: VS2015, Vb.Net, &quot;Cannot create ActiveX component&quot;

I am using Visual Studio 2015 on a Windows 8.1 Pro x64 PC and have a dMCScripting project working fine.

In my project, I have set a reference to dMCScripting 1.0 Type Library and the Target CPU is set to x64.