Thank you for your input.
>1- MS once thought of discontinuing COM, has since changed its mind and keeps it alive and kicking
>2- you can get a direct return from a COM object, with an outside exe (eg. RUN in VFP) caller and called need to share a file
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>>I admit I know little about COM-DLL. But if I understand it, it has to be registered (negative). And didn't MS discourage using COM-DLL? (maybe I confused things).
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>>But, I do call a small VFP 9 exe (not COM-DLL) from this ASP.NET application. And it works very well.
>>Why could not I create a regular small VFP 9 app and convert this report to the PDF using XFRX?
>>Must it be a COM-DLL?
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>>Thank you.
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