Visual Studio IDE Crash Using IDispatch.GetTypeInfo() for Excel.Application

I am writing an application to interface with COM components and I have run into a problem when working with the Excel.Application component while running my application in the Visual Studio 10 IDE. I am getting a fatal Out of Memory error. Everything runs fine if I just run the EXE, but this severely limits my debugging capabilities. All other COM components I have accessed this way work fine, including both home-grown and commercially available components.

Here is a console app that demonstrates this crash. I have removed all error handling for simplicity's sake. Putting a try/catch block around the offending code does not help. This project requires a reference to the CustomMarshalers.dll.

    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            InstantiateCOMComponent("Excel.Application");
        }

        private static void InstantiateCOMComponent(string name)
        {
        Type typeInfo = Type.GetTypeFromProgID(name);
        object instance = Activator.CreateInstance(typeInfo);
        IDispatch dispatch = instance as IDispatch;

        // NOTE: THIS CALL FAILS WITH Excel.Application in the IDE
        // but succeeds at run-time!! (Out of Memory fatal error)
        Type comTypeInfo;
        dispatch.GetTypeInfo(0, 0, out comTypeInfo);
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    }

 [ComImport, 
  Guid("00020400-0000-0000-C000-000000000046"),
  InterfaceType(ComInterfaceType.InterfaceIsIUnknown)]
public interface IDispatch
{
    void Reserved();
    [PreserveSig]
    int GetTypeInfo(uint nInfo, int lcid,
       [MarshalAs(
          UnmanagedType.CustomMarshaler,
          MarshalTypeRef = typeof(TypeToTypeInfoMarshaler))]
       out System.Type typeInfo);
}

I am thinking the problem is simply due to Excel's size.