How are you trying to instantiate it? You have to add the OleCOntrol class to a form using AddObject() or NewObject(). It won;t instantiate otherwise.

>When trying to instantiate a subclass of the MSCommLib.MSComm control I get the following error: Object class is invalid for this container. Why can't I create a workable subclass of MSComm?
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>The code below was extracted from the VFP class browser. When I
>looked at the properties sheet I did find the OleClass = MSCommLib.MSComm.1.
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>DEFINE CLASS mscomm AS olecontrol
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> Height = 100
> Width = 100
> Name = "mscomm"
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> PROCEDURE Init
> SET TALK OFF
> SET RESOURCE OFF
> SET EXCLUSIVE OFF
> SET CPDIALOG OFF
> SET DELETED ON
> SET EXACT OFF
> SET SAFETY OFF
> SET REPROCESS TO 3 SECONDS
>
> *-- Force server into unattended mode
> SYS(2335,0)
> ENDPROC
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>ENDDEFINE