>>>I would think that if the EXE is external to the current APP/EXE, that it'd be a heck of a lot slower than SET CLASSLIB to a library in the current EXE/APP.
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>>The benefit of this is that the class can be updated independent of the application. Just DON'T BREAK THE INTERFACE!!!
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>That's a standard COM rule.

This would not be using COM.

It is a standard rule for all forms of dynamic linking. If only we could get Microsoft to follow the rule.