What does HRESULT 0x80070057 mean, and why is my program crashing?

Question

I\'ve written a program that takes two images, then runs an algorithm on them to isolate a hand in the \"foreground\" and match the gesture to a known one.

A few days ag

Answer 1

From what I know the error code means, that an assembly couldn't be loaded. It is corrupt or not avaliable.

Clear the \bin folder of your project and the AppData (Temp) folder (located at C:\Users\your_username\AppData\Local\Temp\Temporary ASP.NET) and see if the error still happens.

^{Source MSDN}

E_INVALIDARG: One or more arguments are not valid (0x80070057)