Excel .NET COM - Automation error. The system cannot find the file specified

Question

I have a .NET 2.0 COM object that\'s used by VBA in Excel. It works fine on my dev machine, but when trying to use it on a clean VM workstation I get this error:

Automat

Answer 1

I also receive a automation error. My reference (in MS Access) was to a TLB file. The corresponding DLL file was missing from the folder that held the TLB file and this caused the 'automation error' message to appear. Adding the DLL back in fixed.