>Well, that maybe your definition of a structure in C and the "old days". However in Java, VB and VFP a structure is not defined by contiguous memory. It is simply an abstract definition of an object to make it simpler for the programmer to manage the object.
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>This structure can be passed around and edited with ease inside a program and used as either an entity or individual components.

I think that Ed dealt with this quite well. I would add that the point of my original post was to express the need for a mechanism that a can be used as a parameter will a DLL. Currently, none exists.