Common error codes, causes and solutions.
| Error Id | Error Text | HRESULT (hex) | HRESULT (dec) | Description | Solutions | More Info |
| E_FAIL | Unspecified error | 0×80004005 | -2147467259 | |||
| REGDB_E_CLASSNOTREG | Class not registered | 0×80040154 | Class not registered | The COM library is not registered. Find what DLL defines the class ID in the rest of the error message, and register it. | ||
| 800700c1 | Mixing 32/64 problem? Compile to x86 instead of All Platforms for .NET assembly | |||||
| E_OUTOFMEMORY | 8007000e | |||||
| TYPE_E_CANTLOADLIBRARY | 80029c4a | The type library or DLL could not be loaded | Type library not found, or maybe missing dependency loaded using LoadLibrary? | |||
| 800a005e | Invalid use of Null | Probably coming from a VB6 COM DLL, where a Null value is being used improperly (i.e., something is Null that shouldn’t be) | ||||
| 80070005 | Permissions problem when registering DLL? Make sure you are in an elevated command prompt when trying to register (Administrator in the command window) | |||||
| TYPE_E_REGISTRYACCESS | 8002801c | Error accessing the OLE registry | ||||
| 900a005e | A VB6 result error code (more info needed) |
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Sometimes the error code will be from another platform or framework, for example, 900a005e is from VB6.
Example
REGDB_E_CLASSNOTREG
The error code will look like this in .NET: 0×80040154 (word) or 0xFFFFFFFF80040154 (dword), or a decimal value of 2147746132 (1 word) or –2147221164 (dword)
Here’s how it looks defined in winerror.h:
#define REGDB_E_CLASSNOTREG _HRESULT_TYPEDEF_(0x80040154L)
References
Online version of winerror.h @ msdn.microsoft.com – Contains a bunch of error codes, from which you can get the constant name, and possibly some more information