CoCreateInstance returns COR_E_MEMBERACCESS error

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prose <prosen@inovasolutions.com>

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microsoft.public.vc.atl

Date:

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:33:47 -0700

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The return value from CoCreateInstance is COR_E_MEMBERACCESS. I've
looked around the 'net and on MSDN and can't find any info on this.

How would I approach figuring out what is causing that return value?
In other words, does that error code give me some kind of clue about
what to change?

---- Background: -----

The COM DLL is a .NET C-sharp program that begins:

namespace MyNamespace
{
    [Guid("822F83B3-644F-4c59-AA2A-7257D0ABE301")]
    public interface IManagedInterface
    {
        bool Configure(string iniPath);
        bool Connect();
        bool Disconnect();
        string GetUpdate();
    }

    [Guid("0D75D411-AD2F-419c-94EE-91A251ABC41D")]
    public class MyClass : IManagedInterface
    {
etc....

The calling code is:

    IManagedInterface* pInterface = NULL;

   HRESULT hr = CoCreateInstance(CLSID_MyClass,
               NULL, CLSCTX_INPROC_SERVER,
               IID_IManagedInterface,
reinterpret_cast<void**>(&pInterface ));

I have registered the resulting DLL with REGASM.

The exact same code worked in an earlier release of our product. The
only difference I can see is that the older version was compiled with
MSVC 7.1, and the current release is using MSVC 8.0.

I can drop the older DLL over the newer one and my app starts working.

As near as I can tell, the code is identical in the two versions and
they were registered the same way.

Thanks for any clues!

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