>Fawcette doesn't have any VFP mags so there would be no tie in for them -and- it kind of goes against the concept that in component development, you don't really care what the components were written in, hence dealing with a VFP-based COM DLL or EXE should be a matter of dealing with COM objects and not VFP.

Well, they have to be written and implemented in some language environment -- and I'm sure there's more than enough VB-specific info there to implement COM. But, point taken for their focus.

>OTOH, They now have a Visual Studio Live! conference that is a combination of VBITS, VCDC, and SQL Server to the Max conferences. I am currently working with (OK, badgering) some people over there to get a VFP7 COM session into the January VSLive, arguing that you can't seriously talk about the VS IDE and heterogenous component development without including VFP (now that it will be integrated into the IDE). Wish me luck.

Best wishes!