>>If you are referring to an early binding speed gain, then no. VFP is still a late binding client.
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>VFP7 has added an interface ID parameter to CREATEOBJECTEX() that allows VFP to gain an early bound reference to an object:
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>x = CREATEOBJECTEX("excel.application","","{000208D5-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}")

Yes, Mike did mention this last week in response to another post. However, CREATEOBJECT() still only creates late binding references.

To gain a little more knowledge about this, let's expand.

From your example, the COM server is registered locally because you are using the ProgID to create it. Now is the parameter you specified the ClsID of the server or is it the ClsID of the type library? If the server then can the same thing be done when using CreateobjectEX to create DCOM objects on remote systems? Again, if so, if you use the ClsID, is the type library then downloaded as well and cached along with the object reference?

Feel freee to answer all, some or none. And by all means tell me to RTFM if that is appropriate. :-) It may force me to clean up my system so I can install version 7.