Latest Visio update 2606 is causing third-party applications that integrate the Visio control to crash

Ryan-8172 0 Reputation points
2026-07-20T14:14:49.2833333+00:00

It looks like the latest Visio update Version "2606 (Build 20131.20152)" and "2606 (Build 20131.20154)" is now causing any third-party applications that use the Visio control to crash immediately (with a vague Visio exception (as shown below).  This happened last year in the 2506 update and so it looks like this issue has returned.

Anyone else experiencing this?

Visio exception:

Message: External component has thrown an exception.

Error Details:

System.Runtime.InteropServices.SEHException (0x80004005): External component has thrown an exception.

at System.Windows.Forms.UnsafeNativeMethods.CoCreateInstance(Guid& clsid, Object punkOuter, Int32 context, Guid& iid)

at System.Windows.Forms.AxHost.CreateWithLicense(String license, Guid clsid)

at System.Windows.Forms.AxHost.CreateInstanceCore(Guid clsid)

at System.Windows.Forms.AxHost.CreateInstance()

at System.Windows.Forms.AxHost.GetOcxCreate()

at System.Windows.Forms.AxHost.TransitionUpTo(Int32 state)

at System.Windows.Forms.AxHost.CreateHandle()

at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl(Boolean fIgnoreVisible)

at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl(Boolean fIgnoreVisible)

at System.Windows.Forms.AxHost.EndInit()

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