>To All,
>
>According to a book I've just gotten ("MSDE Bible" by David Walls and Denise Gosnell) the Enterprise Manager GUI is a COM object in a pair of files, SQLNS.DLL and SQLNS.RLL.
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>This is very interesting to me as I'm working with a team that's using MSDE as an intermediary for SQL Server development. I'd REALLY like to get to the EM gui.
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>I've just spent the last three days trying to work with this, but I can't even get the dll to register in Windows (I'm running Windows ME).
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>Does anyone have any experience with this COM object?
>
>TIA,
>Thom C>

Thom,
I have no experience with this COM model (I use the SQL DMOs when I need programming access to SQL), but you can find the on-line MSDN reference here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/sqlns/ns_prog_6dyp.asp.

Here is a reference with some code examples (albeit VB and VC++): http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/sqlns/ns_prog_8zn7.asp

HTH. Good luck!