Catastrophic failure error..

Karthi Keyan

hi. i am trying to connect biometric device with my coding. at the time of setting ip address i got the error "Catastrophic failure (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8000FFFF (E_UNEXPECTED))".

i search the several result but i can't understand. can any one help me. how to fix this problem. is this problem occurred due to system problem or problems in coding.

my coding for connect.

in this FP_CLOCK is ocx dll file.

try

{

string ip = "192.168.1.224";

int port = 5005;

int password = 0;

int machinenumber = 1;

int flag = Convert.ToInt32(true);

FP_CLOCK fp = new FP_CLOCK();

fp.SetIPAddress(ip,port,password); // here is the error occurred.

fp.OpenCommPort(machinenumber);

fp.EnableDevice(machinenumber,flag);

//DataTable dts = QueryServiceClass.AdapterQuery("select * from Attendance_TB");

}

catch (Exception ex)

{

MessageBox.Show(ex.Message + " " + ex.StackTrace);

}

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amr soliman6y ago
Do you have any updates on this problem? I am using the same SDK and getting the same error
Karthi Keyan10y ago
I want to get the data from BioMetric device. so i was convert the OCX file which is given with the SDK. and i convert the ocx file into DLL. when i tried to access the function of that dll i got the " catastrophic failure Error (Exception From HResult:0x8000FFFF (E_UNEXPECTED)) at System.RuntimeType.ForwardCallToInvokeMember(........) I don't know what i want to do.help me. thankz and regards.
Karthi Keyan10y ago
I can't Access The ocx File. So i want to convert the ocx into .net dll. i tried to that with AxImp. but i got "AxImp error : unable to locate input activex library". Can You Help me. Because it was taking so much of time. nearly 1 week i am trying to do this.
Guest User10y ago
I assume your ocx is registered. Can you post the full exception detail? Perhaps that might show something.