>Hi George,
>First off, the easy one. If Win2K, you can call IISRESET. There are a number of parameters it accepts. Type IISRESET /? at the Cmd prompt to see. Erik Moore used to put this in a projecthook in the BeforeBuild/AfterBuild to stop and then restart IIS.

Thanks for you and the others for this tip. I know, I know...I coulda RTFMed.

>Next, how are you passing the XML string? Via an embedded field or as part of the URL (e.g. ?XMLString=< blah >. You can't display anything from a DLL so I am guessing you are using something like STRTOFILE() to get debug information. And that isn't showing anything being passed at all?

I found that the problem was caused by the presence of CHR(13)s within the XML string. Once I removed them, worked like a champ.

The odd thing was and is, from within the MTDLL no text was produced as a file when it should've been. To answer the question before it's asked, yes the directory is marked as writeable from within IIS.