unable to cast COM object of type 'microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.ApplicationClass' to 'microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Application'"

This is my first attempt to capture some data from excel from within one C# console application.

I get the error "unable to cast COM object of type 'microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.ApplicationClass' to 'microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Application'".

This code used the 'Microsoft Excel 12.0 Object Library' , and I gave reference to Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.

Still, I could not get over this error - which I believe has its own quick solution.

I digged a little bit this site and came across with this solution: Interop type cannot be embedded

However, I could not understand so could not implement what was suggested as a solution.

My .Net version is 4.5.

Any help is very much appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;

using Excel = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel;

namespace deneme
{
class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {

        Excel.Application xlApp = new Excel.Application();
        xlApp.Visible = true; // <-- excel application
        xlApp.DisplayAlerts = false;

        // Open the workbook.
        Excel.Workbook wBook = xlApp.Workbooks.Open("C:\\FNN\\XLA\\fnnComTemplate.xlsx",
            Type.Missing, Type.Missing, Type.Missing, Type.Missing,
            Type.Missing, Type.Missing, Type.Missing, Type.Missing,
            Type.Missing, Type.Missing, Type.Missing, Type.Missing,
            Type.Missing, Type.Missing);

        // get the sheet
        Excel.Worksheet wSheet = wBook.Sheets[0];
        // foreach (Excel.Worksheet sheet in wBook.Sheets) { if (sheet.Name == "templateSheet") { wSheet = sheet; } }

        Excel.Range rng = wSheet.get_Range("A1");

        aux = wSheet.Range["F6"].Value;

        Console.WriteLine("interop result:" + aux);
        Console.ReadLine();

    }

}
}