>There are some great features of VB that I would like to be able to harness in VFP. What are my options for this?
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>Do I create a DLL?
>Do I create a control?

Which features?

>If I creat an ActiveX control in VB6, does this control then need the VB6 runtime so that it can work?

Every things you do with VB needs at least the VB run-time (search the Microsoft Knowlegde base for VBRun60SP3.EXE.