> That's what I said, and this is not the best forecast for VFP.

Why? First of all, the middle tier is the most important tier in a three tier system and if VFP is well suited for it, which has been discussed here ad nauseum, then that bodes well for VFP. Secondly, VFP still remains the only product in VS capable of handling all three tiers, which makes VFP the only game in town when all your dealing with is logical separation. It's still perfectly acceptable for a VFP front-end to call a middle tier (VFP or non-VFP) component. As far as MTS requiring DLLs with no UI then is the forecast bad for VB, Delphi, C++ and any other language that user interfaces can be developed in?

BTW, you can use any object you want in a DLL, you just can't display anything. Containers are probably more viable than custom controls because you can drop other elements into them at design time.