I also looked at this issue in great detail in the past and came to the conclusion that it's by design from Microsoft. First I tried VFP timers and then C++ timers (Bela Bodecs has some free C++ timers you can use with VFP). probably better to use the EXE server as you said...
>I found that timers simply do not seem to work in dll's.
>OK, make an EXE and it works.
>
>The questions are
>
>1. Why is that so? Does it have anything to do with the
> in proc approach?
>
>2. Why no documentation at all; no errors either? You can
> do anything with a timer with the minor drawback that
> it simply does not fire <g>.
>
>Is that a bug, a feature or a thats why?