WIA Scanning issues on XP

Question

I have a WPF application that I am using to scan documents to a users mailbox etc.

When debugging the application on my 32bit Windows 7 professional machine all goes according to plan, as well as the deployed version on another 32bit Windows 7 machine.

When I deploy to a XP machine and try to start a scan I get the following error:

Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {850D1D11-70F3-4BE5-9A11-77AA6B2BB201} failed due to the following error: 80040154 Class not registered (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80040154 (REGDB_E_CLASSNOTREG)).

Any suggestions?

Have you registered the wiaaut.dll file on the target machine? — Richard Friend, Oct 09 '12 at 08:07
When registering the DLL with regsvr32 i get the following error: "LoadLibrary('E:\windows\system32\wiaaut.dll') failed - The specified procedure could not be found". Note that the DLL was copied from my development PC. — Chrisjan Lodewyks, Oct 09 '12 at 09:13
I had the same issue - the win7 version will not work on xp, unfortunatley i couldnt find it anywhere online all the links to it were broken - i managed to find an xp machine with it on and copied it from that. — Richard Friend, Oct 09 '12 at 09:15

score 9 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 09 '12 at 09:17

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The win 7 version does not work on xp - you could try downloading this version for XP.

download here

answered Oct 09 '12 at 09:17

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Thanks a lot. Could not find this dll anywhere and all MS links are down. – Chrisjan Lodewyks Oct 09 '12 at 09:29
so should I use wiaaut.dll instead of Interop.WIA.dll? – franklins Apr 23 '13 at 18:54

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 28 '16 at 13:52

To make deployment simpler, turn the files from Richard Friend's Answer into an Inno installer.

[Setup]
AppId={{4D9ADCF1-F6B4-4790-8B21-3C9F93346638}}
AppName="Microsoft Windows XP x86 WIA 2.0 Installer"
AppVersion="2.0"

OutputBaseFilename="Microsoft Windows XP x86 WIA 2.0 Installer"
Compression=lzma2/ultra64
CreateAppDir=no
Uninstallable=no

[Languages]
Name: "english"; MessagesFile: "compiler:Default.isl"

[Files]
Source: Files\wiaaut.chi; DestDir: {win}\HELP; Flags: onlyifdoesntexist
Source: Files\wiaaut.chm; DestDir: {win}\HELP; Flags: onlyifdoesntexist 
Source: Files\wiaaut.dll; DestDir: {sys}; Flags: onlyifdoesntexist regserver

I just did that since I have to deploy this in a small office and it works. I'm putting it on x86 machines only. You might have to tweak it a bit to work on x64 machines.

WIA Scanning issues on XP

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