Nick;

Good references.

Visual FoxPro is an OLE automation server and you can create an OLE automation controller, to access properties and methods of the VFP application.

We had a third party piece of software that was used for the shipping industry. This software had a number of features such as giving the cost and carrier information to ship something from one point to another. We built custom interfaces using VFP and using this technology had a simple solution to a clients problems.

What was interesting is that no instance of the original application was running - it was being accessed by the OLE controller coupled to the interface.

Tom





>>A COM component, that is the idea. I'd like to find some examples.
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>>>You'll have to make it an EXE to show the forms and run the reports. Can you make into a COM component? It depends on how it was designed.
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>As Craig says, you need to make it a COM object. The COM objects supposed to be defined as OLEPUBLIC, then you will be able to instantiate them from other objects/applications whether they written in VFP or other languages. You might want to start with Calvin Hsia article in MSDN library:
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>http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnfoxgen7/html/vfpandcom.asp
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>Check out also earlier version:
>http://msdn.microsoft.com/archive/default.asp?url=/archive/en-us/dnarfoxgen/html/msdn_custole.asp
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>There were also multiple articles in FoxPro Advisor on COM subjects.