Ed,

That's impressive that even COM servers can withstand that many instantiations without crashing. Maybe this VFP thing ain's such a bad tool after all. *LOL*

I've had two separate VFP COM servers running continuously on a data acquisition system since 6/10/98 and the system only has been down twice since then to install new versions as we've brought new features online.

>Dave, I've done something like this already in the course of testing the integration of one of our COM Servers with a VFP application; we ran over 67,000,000 consecutive CREATEOBJ() instantiations of our in-proc server without having VFP complain about memory loss. We did grow the swap file a bit (not surprising, since we use mapped file I/O for inter-instance communication) but VFP never complained about a lack of memory internally. We even tried multiple sessions of the test app running on the machine, each repeatedly creating and releasing the in-process server. VFP wasn't bleeding.