Is the control registered? [regsvr32 c:\windows\system\control_name.ocx] Probably is since you get the error after creating the object. Do you have an original copy of the control to copy over the current one in case it is corrupted? Otherwise, I have nothing else other than contacting the vendor.

>The other objects that I create from the same vendor do let me see the properties after CREATEOBJECT in VFP6. I left out the error I get when I try to check any properties after the CREATEOBJECT because I thought it was because of the empty object. The error is "OLE error code 0x80000ffff: Unexpected Failure".
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>Any further thoughts.