We’ve developed an external app (using VB) that invokes the Notes client to create a calendar entry. It works fine in earlier versions of Notes (up to R7) and also works fine if Notes client is already up-and-running, but if Notes has to be started, then it gives an ActiveX error after starting the client.
It looks like the very slow startup of the full R8 UI is causing this - it’s an internal timeout. My solution has been to trap the error (error code = 429,ActiveX component can’t create object) and force it to retry the line that starts Notes
CreateObject(“Notes.NotesUIWorkspace”)
Hope this helps anyone else struggling with the slow startup.