>What's the real benefit of Active Document????
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None that are significant. Active documents using VFP and VB forms would be most useful for hosting them in IE3, and requires the full runtime on the client machine. WIth IE4 and IE5, you have DHTML with RDS, so you can update content of a web page dynamically and communicate directly to a VFP DLL over HTTP. Active documents are still popular for hosting things like Office documents in the web browser, but there are no strategic design reasons to embed a VFP or VB form as a runtime app hosted in the browser when it's 100% the same as a stand alone form using an EXE or APP not hosted in a browser.