installing application that depends on WMI

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Hello,

i have just developed an app that uses system.manament class, but my friend is having problem using the app as it gives errors. He has winxp sp3 and .Net framework 2.0 installed, just as i have.

<pre>System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for
'System.Management.MTAHelper' threw an exception. ---> System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x80040154): Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {A8F03BE3-EDB7-4972-821F-AF6F8EA34884} failed due to the following error: 80040154. at System.Management.MTAHelper..cctor()</pre>

how can i deploy this application making sure wmi is present?
what could be the problem?

Posted 17-Sep-11 9:09am

Cool Smith

Updated 17-Sep-11 9:20am

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Pradeep Shukla · Accepted Answer · 2011-09-17T09:51:00

Solution 1

There are issues reported related to WMI after installing SP3 on XP machines.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/itproxpsp/thread/7c00d810-0ecd-48b9-862e-69efa29beace/[^]

You may want to revert and use SP2 or use WIN 7 as still no definite solution available yet.

Posted 17-Sep-11 9:51am

Pradeep Shukla

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Cool Smith 17-Sep-11 15:54pm

hello, am using sp3 too, and i have no problem with it

Pradeep Shukla 17-Sep-11 16:02pm

May be you can ask your friend to re-install SP3, some how wbemcore.dll got corrupted resulting in the issue.

Cool Smith 17-Sep-11 16:58pm

thanks, i'll try that out

Cool Smith 18-Sep-11 11:29am

thanks all, re-installing did fix it!

Pradeep Shukla 18-Sep-11 11:54am

gr8..good to hear :-)