VB gives me the error shown in the subject line when I try to create an
instance of an automation object created in Delphi 3.0.  Does anyone
know what this is?  I have had this problem before with out of process
servers when I didn't specify a form to display when the application
started.  Although the workaround I settled on (creating a form, even
though I really didn't need one) worked, I wish I had a more
satisfactory way of dealing with this issue.  In this most recent case,
however, my server is an in process server.  I can't see any reason at
all why I should need a form running, but I get the same error.  Any
ideas?

It means that COM doesn't know what the object you are trying to get VB to
create is! I guess you have put in a reference in your VB project to the
Delphi OLE server; if not not then you must create one... In VB use
Project...References, then choose your object from the list. You will have
to be sure the Delphi OLE server is properly registed with COM first!!

Brian McCormick <gl...@gte.net> wrote in article
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