>The only other thought I had on this (and probably a very stupid one at that< g >), was that there's a Set event occurring when the assignment statement is executing. You know, analogous to our _Assign event. If so, maybe COMARRAY() might be of some help.

Not stupid at all. I played with this thinking the same thing with no apparent difference.

While I know the "properties" are simply IN and OUT methods for C, I haven't been able to invoke those methods directly from VB or VFP. They only know the properties. If the method could be called directly, maybe passing the array by reference or the pointer created by SafeArrayCreate would work.