Using COM methods in console application - c++

Question

i made a win32 console application that imports an ".ocx" file from geovision SDK. I found proper CLSID and interface ID of COM components in generated ".tli" and ".tlh" headers and everything works until i invoke any method(Login2 for example in my code below). Then _com_exception occurs and it gives no detailed info about what exactly happens.
Can anybody give me a hint what should i do next or where should i look for solution? It took me over a week to reach this point of using COM components in console application... I hope its possible to do it.
#include "stdafx.h"
#include "stdio.h"
#import "C:\Windows\GeoOCX\SinglePlayer\20121003\GVSinglePlayer.ocx" \
named_guids no_namespace no_smart_pointers
int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
try
{
CoInitialize(NULL);
_DGVSinglePlayer* pSP = 0;
HRESULT hr = CoCreateInstance(CLSID_GVSinglePlayer ,NULL, CLSCTX_INPROC_SERVER,DIID__DGVSinglePlayer,reinterpret_cast <void**>(&pSP));
_bstr_t lpIPAddress("11.11.11.11");
long iPort=10000;
_bstr_t lpUserID("abcde");
_bstr_t lpPassword("password");
if ( SUCCEEDED ( hr ) )
{
hr = pSP->Login2(lpIPAddress,iPort,lpUserID,lpPassword );
if ( SUCCEEDED ( hr ) )
{
printf("Cool");
}
}else
{
}
pSP->Release();
CoUninitialize();
} catch (_com_error& e)
{
char buf[80];
sprintf(buf, "Error: %S",e.Description());
printf("%s\n",buf);
}
return 0;
}
Since e.Description() prints no info, I attatched visual info about the error.

Answer 1

Many ActiveX controls want to be properly hosted (meaning, the host implements IOleClientSite and related interfaces, and passes the pointer to the control's IOleObject::SetClientSite). Such controls return E_UNEXPECTED for all method calls until the OLE activation dance is performed.
In particular, ActiveX controls developed with MFC usually behave this way; the behavior is baked into MFC framework.
I suspect your control might be one of those. In this case, you wouldn't be able to use it easily in a console app. You would need a windowed application using a framework that implements ActiveX hosting (MFC, ATL, WinForms; others likely exist that I'm not familiar with).