C# COM object QI for custom interface fails

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Hey...

I ran into this and was wondering if somebody has an answer for it.

I created a C# COM object and was trying to QI for the custom interface.

Here is the C# COM code:

public interface IiAddin 
{
  long Initialize(Object app);
  long Uninitialize();
}
namespace TEST_CSharpAddin
{
  [Guid("F8C17785-DB6D-4982-9D68-CA8FF6DC785A")]
  public interface CSharpAddin_Interface : IiAddin {
  }
  
  [Guid("4ADEE107-3FE3-4037-9463-FE7E94D9D544"),
      InterfaceType(ComInterfaceType.InterfaceIsIDispatch)]
  public interface CSharpAddin_Events {
  }
    [Guid("70FD2E39-D014-4064-9A7C-8C4DA743257F"),
        ClassInterface(ClassInterfaceType.None),
        ComSourceInterfaces(typeof(CSharpAddin_Events))]
  public class CSharpAddin : CSharpAddin_Interface
  {
      public long Initialize(Object app){
        return 0;
      }
      public long Uninitialize(){
        return 0;
      }
  }
}

( yes the project has "Make assembly COM-Visible" and "Register for COM interop" set in the project settings )

( and I have added "COMVisible(true)" to all of the interfaces as well, with no success either)


Here is the C++ code that does the QI for the interface:

HRESULT hResult;
CLSID ClassID;
hResult = CLSIDFromProgID(_T("TEST_CSharpAddin.CSharpAddin"), &ClassID);
IDispatch *pDispatch;
hResult = ::CoCreateInstance(ClassID, NULL, CLSCTX_INPROC_SERVER, IID_IDispatch, (void **)&pDispatch);
CComQIPtr<IiAddin> spAddIn(pDispatch);  // << FAILS >>

// So I tried this instead:
IiAddin* pQIAddIn;
hResult = pDispatch->QueryInterface( IID_IiAddin, (void**)&pQIAddIn);  // << FAILS >>

I did the strong name, put it in the GAC and registered the typelib on the C# object, like this article suggests:


Calling Managed .NET C# COM Objects from Unmanaged C++ Code[^]


However, when I run the C++ code , the CLSIDFromProgID and CoCreateInstance succeed, but the QI for IiAddin fails with 0x80040154 ( class not registered )


Any ideas?