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Thanks Yes i agree i have mostly rewritten my code and it is working now. I am a novice at .net and I taught myself vb6 so i am no expert. I appreciate the input and if not for the push to get this machine running soon i would go back and go to pcomserver. However if it works its going at this point. We use all our machines in house so some dy i can go back and upgrade it. Steve

If using .NET 4 I think issue is that the PIA (primary interop assembly) is set to embedded. Select the contol - properties - make embedded FALSE See this post for details http://forums.deltatau.com/showthread.php?tid=234&highlight=.net Also if going to effort to move to .NET then should not use ptalk and go to pcommserver I be glad to help and provide example code using ptalk .net demo i found that i wasnt declaring the instance and when i put that code in it works. The vb6 upgrade wizard did not bring everything in i needed. thanks for the reply

first chance exception of type 'System.Windows.Forms.AxHost.InvalidActiveXStateException' occurred in AxInterop.PTALKDTLib.dll when i try to run my app i get this exception error can anyone identify the error for me (new to .net ) old vb6 project that i upgraded to .net (not fun at all) steve