>I'm doing some research on using VFP within an ASP.NET application and was wondering if I can build a multi-threaded DLL that is self-describing so that once it is built, to deploy, the only thing I would need to do is to copy the DLL into a specified BIN directory on the particular server. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!

You may be able to get that to work, but why would you? If you use ASP.NET with COM you'll want to import the type library to get limited type support at least. Otherwise you're using Raw Reflection getting at the data. For that to work the COM object needs to be registerd.

THe other issue is that in your own application you can maybe manage to load a COM object without registration, but here we're talking about a system process - a dynamic one at that actually (W3WP.EXE to be exact) and you need a manifest for that. I'm not sure if you'd want to mess with a system process like that in any way...

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>Dave :-)