Does Office Starter include the DLLs for Microsoft

Question

I want to use Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel to pull some data out of an XLS file. I have Visual Studio 2010 and the Office Developer Tools installed. However, I am getting a COMException error at var app = new Application(); when the program runs.

Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {00024500-0000-0000-C000-000000000046} failed due to the following error: 80040154 Class not registered (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80040154 (REGDB_E_CLASSNOTREG)).

I have Office Starter 2010 installed. Is it the case that I can't use the Interop libraries unless I have the full version of office?

Answer 1

Microsoft Office Starter 2010 cannot run Office solutions that you create by using Visual Studio 2010. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb608617.aspx

So I'd say the answer to your questions is yes. Now I realise you probably solved it already. But just in case anyone else runs into this issue. :-)