I too had this same problem, but the Controls showed up after I compiled the app. Simply Yuvi Don't Argue with a Fool : People looking will not know the difference

Ok, here are the absurd steps I needed to remove it. I had to go to the actual folder where it resided, delete it, relaunch VSS, attempt to open it, then the button was no longer grayed out. Brilliant stuff, I'm glad to see so much work was put into VSS over the past 5 years.:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

Well that changed the way the error was thrown, but it looks to be throwing the same error. Here's what it is saying: Managed Debugging Assistant 'LoaderLock' has detected a problem in 'D:\Dev\throwaway\pinvoke\pinvoke\bin\Debug\pinvoke.exe'. Additional Information: Attempting managed execution inside OS Loader lock. Do not attempt to run managed code inside a DllMain or image initialization function since doing so can cause the application to hang.[/code] Here is what my DllMain looks like, but again why isn't this happening with my release version? `BOOL APIENTRY DllMain( HMODULE hModule, DWORD ul_reason_for_call, LPVOID lpReserved ) { switch (ul_reason_for_call) { case DLL_PROCESS_ATTACH: case DLL_THREAD_ATTACH: case DLL_THREAD_DETACH: case DLL_PROCESS_DETACH: break; } return TRUE; }`

Yeah its the same. Actually someone else pointed out to me that my debug dll is probably dependent on the debug dll of the CRT and that it can't find it. So I need to make sure the debug DLL of CRT is in my path. What is the filename of the debug crt DLL?

Paste some C/C++ source code about the function and the C# [DllImport] method. The problem is probably the fact that the exported function is decorated. If you know nothing about C/C++, your in for some confusion. David

Alright I tried to simply add XYZ:: to all instances of System in the headers of the 3rd party library , but I realized that the problem is with microsoft's yvals.h usage of System.bla.bla when I've included XYZ as a namespace. It's not working. I am going to have to rename and rebuild the entire 3rd party library, and everything that uses it.. What a major pain in the neck.

If I do something like the following: #define #include "XYZ.h" using namespace XYZ; #undef I get the following error: error C2007: #define syntax I get that error withour without the using namespace statement as well. Is that what you meant or was it something else?