>Hi Al.
>
>>- used your code, built, ran - no extra file created
>>- checked project information, it was multi-use by default, changed to single-use
>>- rebuilt with recompile all, ran - no extra file created
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>It gets even weirder: when I use the following from the VFP IDE, there's no extra file:
>
>loServer = createobject('COMServer.COMServer')
>messagebox(loServer.Hello('Doug'))
>
>But when I do it in a command button in an EXE, the extra DLL is created. It happens whether the EXE is run as administrator or a normal user.
>
>>Do you have anything hooked into your project that runs at build time?
>
>No.
>
>Grasping at straws, I recreated the project from scratch, with a new name for the project (and hence the DLL), the main program, and the class (and hence the name of the COM server). No change -- when I instantiate X.MyServer (the new names) in an EXE, I get a new DLL named XR1.DLL created.
>
>Doug

Hello Doug,

What if you use a different names for project and prg?
Main PRG name should not be the same as the EXE name.

Regards,
Pieter