>Terry, what you're trying to do by including a GUI interface in an OLE Automation Server is to create a complex control, something that VFP can't do

Yes it can! It is not actually an Active-X control, but you can ship a COM component as an .EXE and it can have a UI!

>Create your mid-tier object with VFP, and if you need to insert a GUI into another application, create a control that talks to your VFP server in another language.

This is a good recomendation, but not a requirement.

BOb