Why is it not possible to call RegFree COM and .NET from the VB IDE (VB6 & VBA)?

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Hi

I have an example project with works when called from compiled VB6 but not from the IDE or from Excel's VBE.

There are 3 DLLs QA.DLL, QB.DLL, QAW.DLL. QA is written in C#.NET, QB and QAW are written in VB6. QAW is a COM wrapper of QA.

In the calling code I create an Activation Context and load a manifest file.

All works fine from the exe created with VB6, but not in debug mode in VB6 or in Excel's VBA.

I have the full example in zip.

Any ideas what it is that is different about the IDE call and why it doesn't work?

Many Thx

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