Ok, I suppose what I was looking for was a way to suspend the VFP application while a VB application does a lookup and returns data to the VFP application. Now does this make sense or should I ask the VB programmers to start writing true COM DLLs?

Rgds
Petras

>>Thanks for the reply. What if the VB DLL is a "lookup" form which returns the key of the table row selected. In this case, I just want to "call" the VB DLL and not create an object and manipulate it. Does this make sense?
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>Creating and manipulating is "calling" the dll. That's how COM works.