>Nick,
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>>If you are planning to use your COM on the remote server then there is no question - it has to be compiled as an EXE.<
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>I'm probably showing my ignorance about this subject, but why would it have to be an .exe on the remote server? Why couldn't you not have a .dll together with the VFP runtime files?
>
>Regards,
>Alan

Hi Alan,

In-Process and Out-Of-Process are relative to the client application which instantiates the COM server. In case of the remote server PC the client app and COM server are located on different computers, therefore the COM server physically cannot run in the same process with a client app, so it has to be an EXE. It has nothing to do with the VFP runtime files (except the fact they have to be installed on the server PC in order to run your COM server :)