Well, similar to using an IP Name, the name has to be looked up to get the number... if you use numbers things go faster since there is no need to do a dns lookup.

>I was thinking that it would always be better to call remote stuff by name instead of a number, kind of like it's better to go after an IP name instead of an IP number.
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>>If you use the classid in the function you DONT need to be registered on the client workstation. If you use the ProgID you do need to be registered locally.
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>>>Why does the exe need to be registered on the workstation as well? This means I have to have a copy of my exe on every desktop, along with mt GUI exe, and have it on the server?
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>>>On the VFPCOM demo from Microsoft, I don't have foxserver.exe registered on my machine and the demo works OK.