Good morning,

I've spent about 10 hours so far trying to do something that in VB6
took me 1 hour or so.

I'm simply trying to open up a powerpoint presentation from VB.NET.
Here is what I did:

1) First I tried creating a reference to Microsoft Powerpoint 10.0
Object Library 2.7.  I got a bunch of obscure seucrity permission
problems.  So I searched the web....

Dim oApp=Powerpoint.Application
oApp = new PowerPoint.Application

2) I found a microsoft page telling me that I had to install some
Microsoft.Office.Interop libraries.  I installed them and now my
project give me a strange stack error (not helpful at all)

3) I decided to try to figure out if I can fix the original security
permission error with the option #1.  Now I'm getting a <The system
cannot find the reference specified> in the Refrences tab of the
project properties.

Now, I realize that the installation of the PIAs was done in the GAC
folder in the assembly, but I can't seem to add a reference to it.

Can someone please lead me down the right path?

I'm trying hard not to go back to my old habits and VB6.

Thanks,

Dave