> >So another app can OLE to your app, or to VFP? Do you need all of VFP loaded on the client machine, or just the runtime? > > what do u mean with "all of VFP" I meant, does an entire copy of VFP have to be loaded or just the runtime engine? But you answered it below, thanks. > u need the same .DLLs (yes now they are .DLLs) that u would distribute > with a regular VFP app. (If I understand correctly - I only distibuted > VFP5.0 modules to other computers on our network that already have VFP ...) I may not always want ot do that. I like to develop "stand alone" execuatbles. But if all you need to load is the runtime engine, then that would be _OK_.... I guess i'll have to keep using VC++ to make independant (at least in the non MFC sense) DLL's. Scot.