vss sample hardware provider

I've been trying to follow the instructions to install the sample VSS hardware provider that comes with the Windows SDK. I have been able to compile the code successfully with VS2013 for 64bit platform. However when I try to install the provider i get the following error..

Unregistering the existing application.

• Create the catalog object
• Get the Applications collection
• Populate...
• Search for VssSampleProvider application.
• Saving changes.

Done.

Creating a new COM+ application

• Creating the catalog object
• Get the Applications collection
• Populate.
• Add new application object
• Set app name = VssSampleProvider>
• Set app description = VSS HW Sample Provider
• Set app access check = true- Set encrypted COM communication = true
• Set secure references = true
• Set impersonation = false
• Save changes.
• Create Windows service running as Local System
• Add the DLL component

ERROR:

• Error code: -2146368511 [0x80110401]
  
• Exit code: 113
  
• Description:
  
• Source:
  
• Help file:
  
• Help context: 0
  

COM+ Errors detected: (1)

(COM+ ERROR 0) on c:\vsssampleprovider\VssSampleProvider.dll
ErrorCode: -2146368475 [0x80110425]
MajorRef: c:\vsssampleprovider\VssSampleProvider.dll

Looking up for COM error code -2146368475 [0x80110425] I could only find that DLL load failed.

Even Viewer logs show a warning saying ... Unable to load DLL c:\vsssampleprovider\VssSampleProvider.dll

Process Name: dllhost.exe Comsvcs.dll file version: ENU 2001.12.10530.16384

shp during component registration. Unable to validate DLL entry points.

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Thanks in advance.

via Chebli Mohamed