What OS are you running it on, if Vista remember that Services are run in Session 0 and not the current users Session. See http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/vista/services.mspx

>Hi
>I have a .Net application which calls a VFP DLL, it all works as when I run it as an application, but the DLL refuses to even instantiate , no error messages and it does not get to the init of the dll, when I run it as a windows service.
>Any ideas?
>Thanks
>Stuart