>Albert,
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>>I've used COMARRAY to acheive this functionality. My concern with this technique is that accessing each array element through DCOM would have a heavy performance penalty. Aren't each array element access marshalled?
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>Do you have to use BSTR? Can you just declare the argument void * or char * in the VC method? If you use a API style DLL instead of COM you can talk about memory buffers like this.

I have to use COM because I am getting a query result set from a VFOX object. I can avoid the problems by returning the data in text format in a BSTR. My interest in alternative methods is more for future use than with my current application.