Hi people,

I'm using Word automation, embedding some OLE objects into a document and
then later on creating links to object within them.  Anyway, the embedding
phase goes through just fine.  But when I attempt the second pass, accessing
the InlineShape object and attempting to cast it to my given object, it
fails.

   A first chance exception of type 'System.InvalidCastException' occurred
in CR.exe

   Additional information: No such interface supported

I can SEE the objects embedded in Microsoft Word.  I can select, activate,
manipulate and otherwise play around with them.  The InlineShapes collection
contains all of the objects too.  But when I try and cast the object to the
given type, I get the above error:

   ' Fetch the shape (success)

   theShape = theDocument.ResultingDocument.InlineShapes.Item(1)

   ' Fetch the Thermo.Image. (fails)

   theOLEObject = CType(theShape.OLEFormat.Object, Thermo.Image)

Now, this cast from theShape.OLEFormat.Object to "Thermo.Image" (our own OLE
object class) fails although the "ProgID" of the InlineShape.OLEFormat is
"Thermo.Image"!

Can anyone explain what is going on here?  Perhaps I am doing something
wrong with COM and my interop?  The odd thing is, I iterate through 90 odd
objects, some of them succeed and some don't.  Any ideas?

Thanks.