>>Yeah, DLLs are in-process (run in the caller's address space) and EXEs are out of process. Also, I've always understood that EXEs could be deployed remotely where DLLs couldn't. By that I always assumed that it meant that the EXE could reside on a server, but a DLL had to be local. Is that correct? If my ignorance of this is showing as much as my beard < g >, please forgive. I'm a rank newbie as far as this is concerned.
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>>tia,
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>Yes.... that is correct... The only way a .DLL can be on another machine is if it is hosted by MTS.
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Hi BOb,

Well, that's what led me down this path. Thinking that if the DLL was local, and the message box didn't have an owner window, I might be able to workaround the inability to have any interface issue. It isn't that I needed one, it was just my curiousity that got me started. Jim's response indicates that it won't appear and that the application will hang. From his original response, I thought I understood why, but now I'm not so sure. Can you guys bear with me here, and provide more information?

tia,