You're right, Rob, of course. I guess I should have mentioned that the DLL and class names should be fully qualified. Thanks for pointing it out.

~~Bonnie



>Hi Bonnie,
>
>Your VB code just needed a little tweaking to get it to work properly. Here's the modified snippet.
>
>

>Dim DLLName As String = "ClassLibrary1.dll"
>Dim ClassName As String = "ClassLibrary1.Form1"
>Dim oDLL As System.Reflection.Assembly
>Dim oClass As Object
>Dim oForm As Form
>
>oDLL = System.Reflection.Assembly.LoadFrom(DLLName)
>oClass = oDLL.CreateInstance(ClassName)
>oForm = CType(oClass, Form)
>oForm.Show()
>