>>>The DLL does not show in the list and I think I know why. After hours of google searches I found a number of references to visibility of .NET components to non-.NET languages.
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>>>These refer to the use of REGTLIBv12.exe and REGASM.EXE .
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>>>I have .NET 4.5.1 installed and both programs are in the folder C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\.
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>>>Can you confirm that I need to run these on the .TLB and .DLL files and whether the order of running is significant?
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>>>Thanks for your assistance
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>>Ah, .net -- a horse of another color, as it were.
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>>You will need something like wwdotnetbridge http://west-wind.com/wwDotnetBridge.aspx to use it in VFP, if it is a .net dll.
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>>Hank
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>Not necessarily true. If it is a .NET library and has been registered for COM then it should work (although, admittedly, that might depend on the complexity of the methods and properties exposed).
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>Anyway it occurs to me that if the library shows up in the VFP Object Browser then it is, de facto, in the registry as a COM object and thus should be available.
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>Maybe the problem lies in dependencies of the library. It seems to be a Sage library so it may need Sage (or at least parts of it) installed ?

He said it did not show up in the object browser: "The DLL does not show in the list..."

Hank