>Will anyone please send me a sample PRG and tell me:
> How can (after BUILDing as DLL) deploy it on MTS 2.0
> How do I instatiate, call its methods from a client machine
> What samples/articles on the web best fit my current quest?

Easy. Start up the Management Console, go to components, and create
a new package. Add your DLL that you built into the package from
the disk files: The DLL and TLB file (don't use already installed
components or you won't be able to move the package).

Then call your component as you would normally...

I suggest you subscribe to some non VFP magazines like VB Programmer's
Journal, Microsoft Internet Development (MIND) and MS System's Journal,
which feature regular articles on building multi-tier applications and
examples. Just because it isn't VFP doesn't mean you can't apply it.

Second, realize that currently MTS is not of much use for VFP 6.0 since
VFP 6.0 can't run multiple concurrent instances of code. I also question
the current MTS architecture for providing anything useful for anything
but the most contrived projects <s>...

All this will change. MS has announced that VFP 6.1 will provide better
support for multi-instancing and NT 5.0 is slated to include real load
balancing and pooling support for MTS although I have not seen any details
on this...

>My ambition is to eventually be able to write very thin client
>applications. So thin that it only has an IE4 installed. It will give
>the users freedom of time & location.

N-Tier is not necessary a solution to that... To build thin
client apps you can build single tier backend apps for example.

Don't fall in the buzzword trap. Look at what you need to do
and figure out how to solve the problem before deciding on
an architecture.

+++ Rick ---