>>I am new to COM technology as it relates to using it outside of VFP. Maybe a simple question will give me a clearer insight to the flexibility of VFP7 and COM. If I am writing a custom DLL in VFP7 for a Visual C++ client that speaks to a MSSQL backend and has been using VB DLL's to answer calls from the VC++ client to perform various functions, will I have the same functionality if the VB DLL (using ADO) is written in VFP7? If I don't, why not?
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>>Thanks for your input.
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>You should have the same functionality. ADO 2.x is a COM server and VFP can use (almost) any COM server, and be one itself. It used to be that raising events was the limitation but with VFP7 I understand that limitation is gone.
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>HTH

No, VFP 7 still cannot raise events by itself, but if you use my EventRaiser COM you will have no problems with that even in VFP 5 :)