>Doug..
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>As an attendee, I asked a follow-up question. Am I no allowed to do that? The purpose of my question is just that - to facilate getting information out to the community. As the presenter, I am giving Craig the opportunity to address a question in detail that was for a lack of a better phrase, blown-off last night.

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John, do you mean the following:

[22:02] < CraigBerntson > one thing that will confuse people is "where does the code run when I use multiple computers"
[22:03] < JohnPetersen > What about data marshalling? What were you going to say abotu that?
[22:03] < CraigBerntson > the answer is, where the dll resides ... if you have a com component on a server, the component runs on the server and just passes data back and forth
[22:03] < CraigBerntson > so, if the component has any UI, the UI will appear on the server
[22:03] < CraigBerntson > yup, john...just getting to that
[22:04] < CraigBerntson > basically, marshalling is passing data or messages from one process to another
[22:04] < CraigBerntson > in our example, the parameters were marshalled from VFP to the COM DLL and the response was marshalled back
[22:05] < CraigBerntson > if you have the component on a different computer or it's an exe, it takes longer to marshall
[22:06] < CarlosEtcheverry > So, the place to put business rules is a DLL?
[22:06] < CraigBerntson > with vfp you can create a single threaded dll or a multi-threaded dll ... we'll get into that next week when I talk about mts
[22:06] < CraigBerntson > carlos, that's right
[22:06] < CraigBerntson > let me clarify that
[22:06] < VladGrynchyshyn > How to rune remote COM object from VFP (maybe stupid question...)
[22:07] < CraigBerntson > you put the biz rules in a component ... that component can be either a dll or an exe
[22:08] < MikeHelland2 > Or a class instance?
[22:08] < CraigBerntson > vlad: you can do that with mts (next week's discussion) or via dcom..which is explained in the VFP docs
[22:08] < MikeHelland2 > If you never leave the VFP environment
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My experience in these chats is that they are not the same as the usual lecture. Everybody talks at once. Things are mixed up. (An editor's nightmare!) Things happen very fast. People's connections are dropped. Many threads of discussion are interrupted and get sidetracked. The speaker has to juggle answers to the questions of newbies who need to be made welcome as well as all the others.

Everyone can choose their own phrase (where John has chosen "blown off") to describe the interchange.

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>I suspect that if anybodyelse asked this question, this way, you would not be giving them grief.
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>And FWIW, I have volunteered to do a 2-hour presentation on this very topic next week.
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>No transparency here.
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>< JVP >