Michelle,

It kind of looks to me like you've jumped into the middle of the example code and don't have all the right part in place yet. Is it possible that the MapObjects.AddressLocation isn't properly registered on your system? If you start REGEDIT look in the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT tree after the file extensions you should see MapObjects.AddressLocation down there if it's a server that properly registered.

Matcher will have to be some other object too.

>I don't know what the method code looks like. It says it returns an object, and in the VB code, it "dim"s the result as an object.
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>What I'm wondering is, if it _doesn't_ return an object, why would VFP complain loResult isn't an object. And if it _does_ return an object, why doesn't VFP just make loResult an object?
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>And why can VB instansiate it as an object and VFP can't? Although that may be a MO question...
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>Here's the VB code:
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>Dim addloc As MapObjects.AddressLocation
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>...
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>Set addloc = matcher.MatchAddress(Text1.Text)