Thanks a ton Mike.

>>When I update a COM+ DLL, I go into Component Services and stop the component.
>
>Dude, you're doing by this *hand*?! Write a project hook that takes care of this when you build.
>
>>How can I prevent the COM+ component from being reloaded into memory until I explicitly start it?
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>Assuming your COM+ application name is "DevCon":
>
>

LOCAL oCat as "comadmin.comadmincatalog"
>oCat = createobjectex("comadmin.comadmincatalog",'','')
>ocat.GetCollection("Applications")
>oapps=ocat.GetCollection("Applications")
>oapps.populate()
>LOCAL myapp
>FOR EACH app IN oapps
>	IF app.Name = "DevCon"
>		myapp = app
>	Endif
>Endfor
>myapp.Value("IsEnabled") = .f.
>
>*-- Do what you need to do here
>
>myapp.Value("IsEnabled") = .t.