Hi Steve Try oVFP = CreateObject("VisualFoxpro.Application.7")

>I made this in VBScript:

>	Set oVFP = CreateObject("VisualFoxpro.Runtime.7")
>	oVFP.DoCmd("Open Database c:\cache.dbc Exclusive")
>	oVFP.DoCmd("Pack Database")
>

>And I got this error:
>C:\wintemp\a.vbs(3, 2) Microsoft VBScript runtime error: Object required: 'oVFP'
>
>Then I tried this in the VFP7 IDE:

>	oVFP = CreateObject("VisualFoxpro.RunTime.7")
>

>And I got this error:
>OLE error code 0x80004002: No such interface supported
>
>
>I ran COM Explorer and see that under DLL servers there is a ProgID of "VisualFoxPro.Runtime.7" and it points to c:\program files\common files\microsoft shared\vfp\vfp7r.dll, something is just not quite right. I like your idea of instancing the runtime, I just can't get it to work. :)