For the WSH reference node to work it must be capable of loading a COM Automation Type library (TLB) from the reference node.

There are two ways for that:

1. the COM server embeds a TYPELIB Win32 resource
2. the CLSID registry key associated with the COM server indicates what is the TLB Id and its version

It works w/o effort with COM servers such as ADODB.Recordset because they are in case 1).

In the .NET case, the .NET .dll doesn't embed any TLB information so you must indicate it. So to fix it you must:

• Create a HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{yourclsid}\TypeLib with a default value equal to your TYPELIB identifier formmated as {guid}
• Create a HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{yourclsid}\Version with a default value equal to your version, ie: "1.10"

Why you don't need that when minor version is < 10 is probably a bug in scrobj.dll (which implements WSH parsing). I suspect the code 1) uses default 1.something value when nothing is specified and 2) is broken when the major or minor versions are hexa. Here is a dump of the function that does it, it uses strtoul with a 10 radix/base instead of 16: