I have a .Net asssembly in dll file and it is supposed to be a COM server in reg free interop. The corresponding manifest is embedded and I successfully used it from C++ client.

Now I would like to do it from VB.Net. How could I create a reference to this dll? In C++ I had generated tlb and then used #import "tiplib.tlb" in my code. What is the way to do it in VB.Net?

Also, it is a bit offtop but probably someone hase an idea if it's possilbe to use reg free interop in VBA?

Thanks in advance

I have read both this articles and a lot of others. I understand that I probably missed some small and stupid thing but I am stucked on it.

I understnad that I need a manifest file for vb.net as well, but I can't compile my VB project. As soon as I try to create an instance of an object compiler gives me error. So I need somehow make a reference to data types which are used in dll (C++ uses tlb for it). One of this article has a sample in vb6 and it suggestion is to to add a reference to dll and set "Isolated" options for it to true, but there is now Isolated option in VB.Net.

No, I haven't registered COM on my machine. What I try to do is to use _registration free_ interop.