>I have a DLL I need to call from a VFP app. The docs, show the following declaration in a VB example:
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>Private Declare Function GMW_LoadBDE Lib "C:\GM4\GM4S32.DLL" (ByVal sSysDir As String, ByVal sGoldDir As String, ByVal sCommonDir As String, ByVal sUser As String, ByVal sPassword As String) As Integer
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>How would this translate into VFP? I thought the following was correct:
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>DECLARE INTEGER GMW_LoadBDE IN C:\GM4\GM4S32.DLL (STRING sSysDir, STRING sGoldDir, STRING sCommonDir, STRING sUser, STRING sPassword)
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>But when I reference GMW_LoadBDE, passing 5 strings in, I get an error stating "Too many parameters" I'm guessing I've done something wrong here. Any thoughts?

Bill, drop the open and close parenthesis. That should do it.