PRB: System Error "No Such Interface Supported"

• Microsoft Visual Basic Learning, Professional, and Enterprise Editions for Windows, version 5.0

SYMPTOMS

When you show the Components dialog by either right-clicking the Toolbox or choosing the Project menu, the following error message appears followed by a blank dialog box:

System Error &H80004002 (-2147467262)
No Such Interface Supported

CAUSE

This error is caused by an incorrect version of comcat.dll.

RESOLUTION

To resolve the problem, install the correct version of comcat.dll by completing the following steps:

1. Use REGSVR32.EXE to unregister COMCAT.DLL. REGSVR32.EXE is installed by Visual Basic or it may be found on the Visual Basic installation CD-ROM.
   
   To unregister, select Run from the Windows Start menu, type the following command line and click Ok:




regsvr32 /u comcat.dll

2. Copy comcat.dll, version 4.71 (22k), from the ..\DevStudio\VB\Setupkit\kitfil32\sys32 directory or from your Visual Basic CD to the Windows\System or WinNT\System32 directory.



3. Use REGSVR32.EXE to register COMCAT.DLL. To register, click Run on the Windows 95 Start menu, type the following command line, and the click OK:




regsvr32 comcat.dll

REFERENCES

For additional information, please click the article number below to view the article(in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q175156 PRB: Class Not Registered Error and Empty Components Dialog

Additional query words: 6K

Keywords : kbRegistry kbVBp500 kbGrpVB
Version : WINDOWS:5.0
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbprb