Thanks to Evan, Ed, and Bruce for your informative and useful answers.

Evan, you mention the need for DCOM to be installed properly.
Could you expand on that need on both the developer PC and the
target PC.

Thanks.
Michel.


>>I've been away from The Universal Thread for a while.
>
>Welcome back.
>
>>What is the situation nowadays ? Have Visual FoxPro 6 specific
>>support packs been released ? Or Visual Studio 6 support packs
>>which address some of the VFP problems ?
>
>Yes. Service pack3.
>Download it at http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/sp/default.asp
>List of fixes: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/sp/vfpfixes.asp
>
>There also some new features and some long time annoyances that were fixed:
>- indexes are recreated in one pass
>- forms can be modified on a netware volume
>
>>And if the answer is YES, do those who use it now feel that
>>Visual FoxPro 6 is more stable ?
>
>Yes. But I found VFP6 before the SP3 to be stable also since I avoided SCREEN=OFF . For me it is much more stable that VFP3 ever was. I never used VFP5. Still you should ensure that DCOM is properly installed on each machine.
>
>>I am keen to move to VFP 6, but only if it is more stable
>>than the originally released product, hence all the above
>>questions.
>
>I am sure others will have opinions too. Testing at your site(s) is the final test though.