Hi Misza, thanks for your reply.

The message I get is not as you suggested, the error is "system.invalid operationexcept ion"

Thanks for the links though, they are particularly helpful as I need to go down this path of running a .net application on a server from a workstation and appreciate the reading.

In the mean time i will persist with this project and maybe remove the code reference to the...

Hi there I hope this is in the right section, apologies to admin if not.

I have a vb.net project that references a 3rd party dll. Within my vb.net project I use the <3rdparty>.dl l events that are publicly available.

When building the solution for distribution, the <3rdparty>.dl l is included as a dependency and when the project is deployed using a .msi the <3rdparty>.dl l and a "Interop.<3rdpa rty>.dll"...