Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Visual Studio 2012, 2013 - Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component.

Visual Studio 2013 giving the below error while trying to debug a website project.


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Microsoft Visual Studio
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Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component.
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OK   
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this was coming when trying to debug a website project. It turned out the start URL in the project was configured as https://localhost/myapp?param1

it started working once I removed the parameter from the URL. ie; https://localhost/myapp

Not sure though why Visual Studio is not accepting the parameter. Was able to add the parameter and hit the browser again once the browser page came up


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