How to Make a WMI call fail?

Asked Jul 23 '12 at 20:01

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I'm a developer but I have a question that seems belongs more in the ServerFault category than StackOverflow.

We have a production service that every so often tends to throw:

System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException: Call was canceled by the message filter. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80010002 (RPC_E_CALL_CANCELED))

The code that's triggering this error is using WMI to get network interface MAC addresses. I have replacement code that doesn't use WMI but we need to verify the issue before/after the change. My question then is: How can I artificially recreate the error message generated above?

asked Jul 23 '12 at 20:01

Nick Gotch

Pretty sure that stopping the Windows Management Instrumentation Service would do it... but I'd question the value of such testing. – HopelessN00b Jul 23 '12 at 20:17
I thought of that but strangely enough that doesn't seem to do it. The program still seems to run fine. – Nick Gotch Jul 23 '12 at 20:53
i have the same problem, any new information on this? – Firo Jan 15 '15 at 10:04

How to Make a WMI call fail?

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