Article ID: 328925 - Last Review: August 14, 2003 - Revision: 1.0

The COM+ (Dllhost.exe) Process Loads the Latest Version of .NET Runtime During Remote Client Activations

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SYMPTOMS

The COM+ (Dllhost.exe) process loads the latest version of .NET Runtime during remote client activations. Dllhost.exe must load the version of .NET Runtime that the client application is linked with.

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CAUSE

By default, DLLGetClassObject loads .NET Runtime when remote client activations arrive at mscoree!DllGetClassObject.

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RESOLUTION

Service Pack Information

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Microsoft Windows 2000. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

260910 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/260910/EN-US/ ) How to Obtain the Latest Windows 2000 Service Pack

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STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

This problem was first corrected in Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4.

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MORE INFORMATION

In mscoree!DllGetClassObject, Dllhost.exe uses GetRequestedRuntimeVersionForCLSID to ask Mscoree.dll what version of .NET Runtime to load before it activates a managed component.

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