Thanx Rick,

You are the best. See you at devcon.
Dr. G. (Neil)

>A COM object is like a new instance of Visual FoxPro. So you need to set the environment in the INIT of the server.
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>I always do at least the following in any COM object:
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>SET EXCLUSIVE OFF
>SET REPROCESS TO 2 SECONDS
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>*** Find the startup path
>THIS.cAppStartPath = ADDBS(JUSTPATH(Application.ServerName))
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>SET PATH TO (THIS.cAppStartPath)
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>If the object is used in VFP and COM you'll want to look at the Application.Startmode property to do this stuff only in COM.
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>+++ Rick ---
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>>Hi UTer's
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>> I have a vfp application called myapp.exe that uses data tables in a dbc called mydata.dbc. I have made a multi-threaded com server, myapp.dll,that also uses the tables in mydata.dbc. I use some of the objects in the automation server in WORD, EXCEL and even on Active Server Pages. I get an "access denied" error in vfp when I launch myapp.dll and then myapp.exe. The .exe and the .dll work with the data tables individually but not together. They don't share well.
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>>Neil