That is a good point. MTS does run under W98, and I never had an issue while I was developing on a W98 machine, but, yes, getting at least up to W2000 would be a good idea.

But, nonetheless, the behavior he saw is odd. A reinstall may help in the meantime.

>Vin,
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>He's not running COM+ but MTS under Win 98 ?? I didn't know MTS could run on 98! And even if it does why would you do it? MTS is really buggy without talking about 98!.
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>IMHO, he should upgrade to 2000 or XP and use COM+.
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>>>>GetObjectContext returns Null if it cannot get the reference... it does not raise a runtime error. So, this behavior is expected if the object is not running under MTS. Have you installed the DLL under MTS?
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>>>Yes, I installed the DLL under MTS I even checked that when my method is executing the corresponding icon (a black sphere with a green X on it) in MTS is spinning. Is there any other circumstances by which GetObjectContext returns Null?
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>>>TIA
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>>>Luis
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>>There's not a reason I can think of... I just retested a little on my end, throwing various switches on the COM+ property sheet on and off to see if any combination seemed to cause this, but I don't see anything.
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>>I know this sounds lame, but I would consider reinstalling MTS and see if that does it....