Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component

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I have a C++ calling a C# form. It appears to work properly. However, when I open up the C# project form designer, the following error messages pop up. What could be wrong. The solution built and ran okay.

Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component. 

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at System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ThrowExceptionForHRInternal(Int32 errorCode, IntPtr errorInfo) at System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ThrowExceptionForHR(Int32 errorCode) at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Design.Serialization.DesignerDocDataService.GetFileDocData(String fileName, FileAccess access, String createTemplate, Boolean addToHostList, Boolean nestedItem) at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Design.Serialization.DesignerDocDataService.GetChildDocData(String name, FileAccess access, String createTemplate) at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Design.Serialization.CodeDom.VSCodeDomDesignerLoader.GetResourceDocData(CultureInfo info, FileAccess access) at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Design.Serialization.CodeDom.VSCodeDomDesignerLoader.System.ComponentModel.Design.IResourceService.GetResourceReader(CultureInfo info) at System.ComponentModel.Design.Serialization.ResourceCodeDomSerializer.SerializationResourceManager.GetMetadata() at System.ComponentModel.Design.Serialization.ResourceCodeDomSerializer.SerializationResourceManager.GetMetadataEnumerator() at System.ComponentModel.Design.Serialization.CodeDomSerializerBase.DeserializePropertiesFromResources(IDesignerSerializationManager manager, Object value, Attribute[] filter) at System.ComponentModel.Design.Serialization.TypeCodeDomSerializer.Deserialize(IDesignerSerializationManager manager, CodeTypeDeclaration declaration) at System.ComponentModel.Design.Serialization.CodeDomDesignerLoader.PerformLoad(IDesignerSerializationManager manager) at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Design.Serialization.CodeDom.VSCodeDomDesignerLoader.PerformLoad(IDesignerSerializationManager serializationManager) at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Design.Serialization.CodeDom.VSCodeDomDesignerLoader.DeferredLoadHandler.Microsoft.VisualStudio.TextManager.Interop.IVsTextBufferDataEvents.OnLoadCompleted(Int32 fReload)

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Possible duplicate of Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component VS2012 when debugging – Malik Khalil

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To fix this in VS2013 ultimate I had to follow the post http://rathodkrunal.blogspot.com/2011/11/visual-studio-2010-error-hresult-efail.html

Wherein it talks about simply cleaning out Visual Studio's ItemTemplateCache and running vs with the /setup flag one time.

In case the link breaks or is otherwise unavailable here's where the cache used to be for older VS:

You can delete the project cache at "Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\ProjectTemplatesCache", then run "devenv /setup" to build the cache again to see if it helps.