Running the Right CorelDraw Version

Hi-

I've got 3 versions of the CorelDraw Suite on my computer:11,12, & 13.

I have a program in VB.net that uses the Draw COM object. I usually use version 11 by default, and specify the 11 version by adding a reference to the draw11 library to my project.

I ran into some problems (that I won't go into specifically here) with my application that I thought might work better with version 13 rather than 11. I removed the reference to 11 in my project and substituted 13. 11 is still the version that instantiates. That's my first issue.

I then modified my code from

Draw= New Coreldraw.application

to

Draw= createobject("coreldraw.application.13")

however, this object doesn;t seem to full expose the interface that I need because the following line fails in the second case

clrBlack_Fixed = Draw.CreateFixedColor(CorelDRAW.cdrPaletteID.cdrPANTONECorel8,  497)

with the error

Unable to cast COM object of type 'System.__ComObject' to interface type 'CorelDRAW.Color'. This operation failed because the QueryInterface call on the COM component for the interface with IID '{F51A0029-8D23-11D2-89E7-0000861EBBD6}' failed due to the following error: No such interface supported (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80004002 (E_NOINTERFACE)).

what can I do to either instantiate version 13 with 'New' or make my code work with a generic object?

Thanks,
Rob

[wOxxOm]

check registry [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CorelDRAW.Application\CurVer] for value of "CorelDRAW.Application.13"

Thanks for the tip, but that entry shows "CorelDRAW.Application.13"

Sigh...