Crash using 2010 drawing control in Visual Studio 2012

[brian123]

Trying to create a winforms app in Visual Studio 2012 using the Microsoft Office Visio 14.0 Drawing Control. Once I drag/drop the control onto a winform, I get a crash:
Failed to create component 'AxHost'. System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x80004005): Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component.

Has anyone else seen this, and is there a known workaround?

[aledlund]

Just off the top of my head, I'd start with Project => properties => Advanced => Compile => and your target is set for AnyCpu... Set the target to match the version of Visio that you have installed.

al

[brian123]

Thanks Al. The new project is set to AnyCPU by default... I also tried .NET version back to 2.0.

Looks like it's broken, not sure if it's a Visual Studio bug or a Visio bug.

[aledlund]

that's the point, you don't want 'anycpu'.
al

[brian123]

That doesn't work either, I've tried all of those simple project settings, net runtimes, etc. I'd be interested in hearing if anyone has gotten this to work.... Anyone?