Dear Fertoll, If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it. - W. C. Fields In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time. - Anthony J. D'Angelo The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people. – Theodore Roosevelt Chatura Dilan

I just thought that I would throw in my two cents worth to this topic. I am new to this (posting!) but I have just been browsing through ALL the topics here 'doing my research' for something I need to be able to do and so far I've scanned/read over 2000 topics, so when I came across this topic it struck me moreso than if I had encountered it earlier in my search. I fully agree that there is no such thing as too simple a question, (Out of the mouths of babes etc etc.) but stupid questions! there should be a law against it. On my researches I sometimes quite happily get sidetracked by 'simple' questions, because they are about using or doing something in a novel way or maybe they are just amusing... More seriously though, because I am new at this I may be way off base here but the one thing that has really hacked me off whilst browsing the topics is where the Topic heading is something useless like Urgent or Please Helppppp! or Stupid question etc etc. but then you have to open the topic to actually see what it is about, which slows down your progress. The idea of Boilerplating could maybe used to advantage here: e.g. Fill a form to do a post, where the querant is asked a couple of simple questions like: Have you tried researching this fully yourself from books or Google search etc? (If no to this refer querant to some respected sources) What Category does your query come under? (and supply a list to pick from) What is your preffered Programming language? Can you give a one-line synopsis of your query? With that taken care of it should enhance everyones level of usage because: 1. You have already made the person take more cognisence of what they really want. 2. You've Catagorised the Question, making it easier to display in the correct place. 3. You've also categorised the programming language. 4. and MOST importantly because of the one-line synopsis it will be now much more efficient to perform a search for help or if you are giving help you will see again more clearly topics you are able to give assistance to. Sorry for being so long winded. Tremonde

Hi Dave, I totally agree. This system 'evolved' but without the 'natural selection' part :-D Can't blame any of the developers since they have done an otherwise outstanding job - just a circumstance of the real corporate world in which I live. The problem is that I can't build the COM DLLs with binary compatibility when they have UserForms as this always breaks them. Just wanted to save myself a day or so reconstructing these forms. Worth a shot anyway. Thanks for your post. ...Steve

Seems like it was my fault to begin with - I had recompiled the DLLs on my machine many times before cleaning the registry and copying all files again from Visual Source Safe. Looks like my registry still has orphaned entries which are upsetting the build process. A full rebuild with binary compatibility on another (fresh) machine solved the problem. Anyone know of a good and free utility to clean the registry? The ones I have found so far on the net all require $$'s (yes - I'm cheap :-D). ...Steve

Colin, Thanks, however I managed to trace the problem to be a combination of Framework 1.0 and network shares with spaces in their names (e.g. "\\sydxyz\is share"). There is an undocumented bug in the Framework 1.0 code which has been fixed in 1.1 (ASURT#127619 - obtained from Microsoft support). This is not yet in TechNet or MSDN. ...Steve