Hi

I am fairly new to visual studio .net and after setting up a couple of
applications I have decided to introduce a library of components that I can
use for future projects
I have set up a simple component thats was shown as an example in a book .
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Public Class hello
   Inherits System.ComponentModel.Component
   component designer generated code

  Public Function sayhello() As String
       Return "hello !!"
   End Function
End Clas
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This compiles ok.

In another project i try to access this component and although the project
knows about the hello function I get an error when i try to refer to
hello.sayhello
the message i get is " Reference to a non-shared member requires an object
reference".

Label1.Text = Library1.hello.sayhello  

The .dll associated with the component is stored in the same location as the
project.

Many thanks if anyone can give me any inspiration

Peter