Hi Garrett,
Interesting... I'll give that a try! Thanks!
Mark

>>Thanks for the response. I think everyone is misunderstanding my question. By
>>user-friendly, I don't mean having a UI on the server, I mean my UI on the >client app, that invokes the server. Passing messages as you say here is more
>>what I'm talking about. So how is that done? If I have a method on the server
>>object that is performing some function, how can I send (return?) a value to
>>the client app, and then return again to the process?
>
>Completely random, half-remembered guess: Try setting a property on the DCOM object that a timer will poll, and start processing. That frees your client app up to query a different property, which gives the Percent Complete.