>I don't know this for a fact, but I heard that they were not *real* DLL's. Can you call these dll's from any language, like for instance C++? Do you need the runtime engine loaded?

what VFP5.0 gives u is the option to create ActiveX servers
this is a new term that means (in "old" terminology)
that VFP can now act as an OLE server
thus u can use VFP from anyother program , including C++ etc.
the .dll are *rea* in the sense the expose a set of functions callable from other programs
it is not *real* in the sense that (AFAIK) u still need the VFP engine (which is VFP5.dll or something)

Arnon