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Allowable actions inside VFP Com DLL?
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Visual FoxPro
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COM/DCOM and OLE Automation
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00255512
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DLLs have no wait state, so events will never fire. Method calls on ACtiveX controls will work, but no events...

+++ Rick ---

>I'm converting an object that I wrote in VFP6 to a stand-alone COM DLL which will eventually run on a Transaction Server, but I'm not clear on what is allowable from within an object if it is to be a COM or DCOM callable object.
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>Most importantly for the moment, the object needs to access the winsock services with a call like this.winsock=createobject("mswinsock.winsock"). Should this work? The code works fine as a local VCX object file, but when I convert it to the DLL, it won't run anymore.
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>If this example is too specific, is there a document somewhere that I can look at to tell me exactly what will work and won't work inside a COM DLL?
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>Thanks alot.
>
>Matt
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