COM Exception 0x800A11F9 - Cannot activate application

Question

I have a C# 2.0 (WinForms) project in which I try to activate word 2003 (word is installed on the system). By using the following code:

private void Activate         


        

Answer 1

Just a thought i've seen a similar error when doing word automation on the server (which we no longer do due to flakiness), however at that time it was caused by permission issues from the ASP.net account, I know you are running in winforms but could this possibly be related to permissions ?