Actually the application works just fine. I was just hung up on the rotating icon thing.
Now I understand that the icon will start to rotate as my asp.net application calls the mtdll contained in the COM+ service. I did not know this. Thank you for helping

Neil

>So your application doesn't work until you do this??
>>Well... maybe I mis-stated the problem. If you go to component services ( in win 2k server) the little COM+ icon rotates when the service is enabled. When I reboot the server the icon is static untill I right click and enable the service. Then it starts to rotate. I assumed that the rotating icon indicates that the COM+ service is enabled.
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>>Neil
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>>>That's a new one to me. I thought, like a regular vfp mtdll, it would start automatically. It's possibly a System Service that's currently set to Manual and possibly could be set to Automatic startup...
>>>>Hi
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>>>>I have placed a vfp MTDLL in a COM+ application that is being used by an asp.net application. I have to start the COM+ application each time I reboot the computer. Is there a way to have the COM+ application start automatically?
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>>>>Regards to all
>>>>Neil