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Program Hangs when opening Word interop in vb.net on VM

I have made a program wthat starts a word file in vb.net. (interop) The program runs on a couple of PC's without a problem.

I have the same program running on a Virtual MAchine on which Office is installed. However, the installtion of MS Office does not help a lot: the program hangs. It does not go into an error but just hangs.

It happens in the next line:

 Dim oWord As Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word._Application = New Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Application()

I already tried:

            Dim oWord As Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word._Application
        oWord = CreateObject("Word.Application")

But this hangs on the second line. I placed a label for tracking where it exactly hangs while it goes OK on my development PC..

I can not find it and I am stuck. does anybody have an idea what is the reason or Solution?

Solution

  • Thanks for the good input. Althoug there was no word open, in the taskmanager I found some Word processen.. Killed them, and it worked. Thanks. this might still be there from the installation by the server administrators who I asked for MSOffice on that VM.