>Thanks for the answer Craig, that's what I feared. In that case, what is the prefered method of exchanging messages between out-of-process COM server and an application? VB has a raise event, do we have an equivalent?
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>>The COM EXE cannot access the properties, methods, etc of the parent because they run in different memory space.

This may be way off base but how about using VFPCOM and bindevents to try to simulate the raise event?