1) Go back to the Ole Object List and look for SDOEngine (Com Libraries tab): is it in there?

2) On the Com Libraries table, click the browse button and select the .dll. What happens?

Hank


>Regasm failed with "RA000" this is not an assembly, regtlibv12 succeeded in registering the tlb but I still do not see it listed in the OLE control selection list
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>Further research revealed that 'myobj = createobject("SDOengine.18")' is the equivalent of the VB declaration as provided by the author of 'Dim oSDO As SageDataObject180.SDOEngine'
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>This declaration works and it appears I can do everything I need but I would like to know how I could have deduced from the object browser the correct declaration.