>If the DLL (ATL COM) is not declared and thus not in memory how does VFP access the functions within the DLL?
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>For example, I have a COM DLL called NameParse.dll which contains a function called GetName(char name, char* retval) how would I use newobject() or createobject()?

You'd reference it by the ProgID or CLSID stored in the registrywhen youregistered the COM object.