>You know me! I was fearing it was intentional and to help kill VFP by preventing VFP from competing with other back-end objects like ASP and ASP.NET, that can instantiate such objects. I guess M$ wants to protect us by dumbing down our code on a par with their NET boiler plate shops in New Delhi - how - how - egalitarian of Microsoft. They're saving us from ourselves - and their stock value certainly shows they've been making good decisions, in this regard, for the past several years.
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>Who can I write at Micro$oft (or at least mention in my prayers) for this salvation?
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>Usually program design causes application instability more than any rumored weakness in a product that has been working well since VFP 6. Leave it to the suits at Micro$oft to protect us from ourselves and rescue us from the denizen of "application instability".
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>I wonder, giving that instantiating objects inside a COM causes instability, if Micro$oft will be pulling that feature from it's other server objects. I hope so - we can't have application instability mucking things up - now can we!:-)
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>DO YOU REALLY BELIEVE THAT CORPORATE LINE OF BS? Well, at least we know one thing for sure: creativity still abounds around the shrimp buffet tables in Redmond!
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>Anther reason to move to Swing and a 64bit Java DBF engine!

Hey Terry :)
I can see you are back and in good mood :)
God help those redmond shrimp buffets now <lol>