>>Bob,
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>>I had them backwards. But a DCOM server will appear to hang if it presents a modal UI element.
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>Hi Jim,
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>So DCOM's the problem. Can I assume that this behavior would occur outside the VFP development environment, even though it doesn't within it?
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>tia,

George,

it is a problem with out of process (that's what I had mixed up before) that may, through DCOM, be running on another machine. It also can cause problems with In process running inside of MTS.