Getting COMException when accessing Emails on Outlook 2010

Question

Hello I am trying to access my emails in Outlook 2010 via a C# Console Application.

Visual Studio is started with admin rights and I have added a reference to Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook v14.0.0.0 and used it as Outlook.

My Code:

Console.Write("starting");
Outlook.Application app = new Outlook.Application();
Outlook.NameSpace mapiNameSpace = app.GetNamespace("MAPI");
Outlook.MAPIFolder myInbox = mapiNameSpace.GetDefaultFolder(Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderInbox);
Console.WriteLine(((Outlook.MailItem)myInbox.Items[0]).Subject);
Console.WriteLine("readline:");
Console.ReadLine();

The second line, throws an error message:

Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {0006F03A-0000-0000-C000-000000000046} failed due to the following error: 80080005 Server execution failed (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80080005 (CO_E_SERVER_EXEC_FAILURE)).

Do you know any solutions?

Answer 1

It is because of privileges of the process.Please run Visual studio and outlook as administrator.

Simple solution. Run both as administrator or run both as normal privilege level.

Regards Rameez Ali