hi kevin,

i got that class from the previous post, and it works perfectly in a
.net 2 project. I already had a reference to stdole.dll, however it's
from "VisualStudioTools for Office\PIA\office11\" folder.
not really sure of the difference. one shows it's type as an assembly,
the other an activex. should i definately use the one you mentioned?
it shows up as stdole1 in my project.

i am using like this -

Dim maxthumb As Image =
cStdOle.ConvertFrom_StdPicture(CType(DSOaccess.SummaryProperties.Thumbnail,
stdole.StdPicture), cStdOle.ReturnTypes.rt_Image)



one more question perhaps outside the realms of AIL support, but
would using these OLE com classes cause any issues with x64 environments?

thanks for the help, i really appreciate it.