>I take it by your example that APPA.VCX was excluded from the APPB project.

Hi:

AppA.vcx is not included in the AppB project. In fact there is no reference of it in AppB project.

>Is APPA.EXE in the same folder as APPB.EXE?

Yes, AppA.exe is included in the same folder as AppB. Everything instantiates fine--I just get the comple time PM error.