VB.net critical compilation error

Hello,

I am trying to get my VB project to communicate with another office application. To do this I have installed the Primary Interop Assemblies from here as recommended by the Microsoft documentation. I have also ensured that I am including the required libraries with "Imports", and there are no blue-lined context errors in the code

When trying to compile, I am now getting the following error to say that it cannot find a .dll

I have tried:
a) registering the .dll manually as recommended in the error message
b) reinstalling Visual Basic 2010 Express
c) double checking the references in the project to ensure that all paths are valid and it seems ok.

Has anyone had this error? Any possible solutions?

Thanks, I really appreciate your help with this one. It's driving me mad!

best regards

J

I tried to see if this is just a problem with my compiler so I just built the project and ran the .exe

When I try to run my program it attempts to connect to visio and says that it has a com error.

Does this imply that the problem is with "Primary Interop Assemblies"?

If anyone has a solution please let me know

Really appreciate your help

Don't know if any of these will hellp.... but it looks like others have had the issue too.

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/for...-0bd68af09343/
http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualS...coloader80-dll

I simply did a search for coloader80.dll ... I got a lot of links where the problem is reported... and a lot of links on "manually install coloader80.dll"... bleh...

-tg

Frankly, I think this might be MS attempting to keep you from harming yourself by attempting to use Visio. That program is only half-good, at best.