I have an existing DLL in VB 6.0 and I want to use it in .NET. I have added the reference to the DLL, but everytime I call a function in the DLL I get the following error message:

Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

Exception Details: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

I'm not really at the point of wanting to rewrite the DLL in .NET, if I can utilize an existing DLL from VB 6.0.

And how do you create the instance of the object? Adding a reference is not enough; after that you'll need to create an instance of your object, just as you would do with any other .NET object.

Can you show some code from the ASPX / Code Behind page?

Cheers,

Imar
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Imar Spaanjaars
Everyone is unique, except for me.

That's part of my problem. I DIM an instance of the object, but I never created a new instance. Now when I try to do that, I get an Access Denied error.

Dim DocumentationTree As CDocTree2.AHCDocTree
..
..
DocumentationTree = New CDocTree2.AHCDocTree <== BLOWS up
bFileExisted = DocumentationTree.RemoveFile(<parms list>)

So, the object can be instantiated, but you get a different error? New-ing your object did the trick?

Could it be a permissions problem with the code inside the DLL?

Imar
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Imar Spaanjaars
Everyone is unique, except for me.

It ended up being a permissions problem NOT with my DLL, but with a Microsoft DLL (MSVBVM60.DLL). This must be the DLL that is used to 'wrapper' my DLL. I gave my impersonated user rights to this DLL and everything works just fine!