>Hi Craig,
>
>>- The COM DLL must be registered.
>
>Actually not. In the February issue of FoxPro Advisor I explained how to load a COM DLL without that it's registered at all.

Just wanted to put this in this thread as well as the reponse I put in the somewhat related thread...

I'm using the MSWinsock OLE which utilizes the _GDIPlus class (VFP9 FFC directory) to receive/send message data via ports to an external 3rd-party application. The nature of the process is that it could send a message every few seconds, and then receive an acknowledgement back from the external application. I currently use this OLE/class to receive messages from another external client, then send an acknowledgement back. This was written in VFP9 as a service because of the specific _GDIPlus class required. Now, to send the information from the main application, written in VFP8, I am trying to figure out the best way to do that as I do not have direct access to the VFP9 _GDIPlus class from within VFP8. Am I on the right track with using a COM containing the OLE/class to handle this?