Loose coupling of COM in C# or How to avoid COMException 0x80040154

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I have a .Net 2 C# application I am developing which uses a VB 6 generated COM DLL. The VB DLL is updated frequently any my application crashes with a System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x80040154). The part of the COM DLL I use does not change but the version (and CLSID) will.

The "Specific Version" option for the reference is false. The WrapperTool is tlbimp.

How do I tell my application not to worry about changes in the DLL? Is there any way of checking just the functions I am using?

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