Another good Calvin article about COM between those 2 can be found at:
http://www.dotcomsolution.com/dev/dna08.htm
>>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.