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Today, as I was debugging my home site, I figured it out that the built-in web server that came along with Visual Studio 2005 behaves differently. Development Server catches all the requests in Application_BeginRequest() event, whereas my local IIS does not. God knows what else is in store (you might like to check it out, i did not bother - yet).

So for any reason it is most advisable to test your Web Application in your local IIS before deployment.

This time I wanted to create a brand new ActiveX Control for myself and let the Wizard of Visual Studio 2005 do it. Hell, it didn't compile:

    "CComObjectRootEx: Base class undefined"

If you encounter this one ever, just inlude the required ATL headers, and put a using namespace ATL; just below the #include statements.

I built the Toolbar last friday and it worked just fine but today the CoCreateInstance for my COM object (which is a User Broker process to make the toolbar work on Windows Vista - see [1] for the reason) returned 0x80020008 (Bad Variable Type). The build had no errors but when the toolbar called the CoCreateInstance() method it returned "Bad Variable Type". This took my whole day to figure out (maybe I'm just low on documents or XP) but I solved the problem.

Here is the code that generated the error:
    ATL::CComPtr pub;
    hr = pub.CoCreateInstance(CLSID_UserBrokerProcess,NULL,CLSCTX_LOCAL_SERVER); // hr = 0x80020008 "Bad Variable Type"

Everything is fine with the code, but just see this method declaration in the IDL file for my IUserBrokerProcess:
    [id(1234), method SetBinaryValue"), local] HRESULT SetBinaryValue([in] BSTR bstrKeyName, [in] BSTR bstrKeyValueName, [in] const void * pValue, [in] ULONG nBytes);

Anything amiss?? It seems the Interface Definition Language does not support
void as a valid type. I had to comment all my methods in the .idl file, implementing .h file and its .cpp file and uncomment the methods one by one to debug this situation. I just changes the void to BYTE and everyting is fine now. Well not everything maybe, but it doesn't cry for 0x80020008 anymore.

[1] MSDN Technical Articles: Understanding and Working in Protected Mode Internet Explorer

I am a software developer and naturally get stuck in millions of errors a day. This blog shall be like my notepad, containing the problems (and hopefully the solutions) I encounter during my developement adventures.

I am developing an Internet Explorer toolbar right now which is really good for getting my nerves on. The project is a C++ ATL project and I strongly recommend every newbie developer to avoid ATL as much as possible. It is not only complicated to develop, but also much harder to find the errors you make (blasted computers are always right about errors, they never make mistakes).

So I hope this blog here does help someone...Please contact me if you have questions related to my blog posts.

Many thanks go to my friend Volkan, who has helped invaluably for the birth of this site, and also the creator for xBlog software.