Martina,

Thanks for the response.

When I use the STRCONV() function as in the line below,

m.cTFile = STRCONV(m.cTransactionFile1,13)

I get the following error.

Error: 1429 - OLE IDispatch exception code 0 from
Client: Client:Type conversion failure for element transactionFile
HRESULT=0x80020005: Type mismatch.
Client:Unspecified client error. HRESULT=0x80020005: Type mismatch.

In another function that is supposed to return a base64Binary I get back something that looks like this:

0h00

This is an empty value (Nothing to return) The TYPE() of this value is "Q"

The following is my path to the conclusion that I needed to pass a TYPE "Q"...

In the VFP Help file

base64Binary
length, pattern, maxLength, minLength, enumeration, whiteSpace
Represents base64-encoded arbitrary binary data. A base64Binary is the set of finite-length sequences of binary octets.
Memo (Binary),
VFP Type = Varbinary or Blob

Elswhere in the VFP Help the "Varbinary" data type is listed as "Q"

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Steve