>My COM object does a report form. The DLL bombs when the report form does screen IO. the exe does not (Go figure). Do you know of a way to get around that so I can us a DLL?
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VFP in-process servers (.DLLs) cannot contain any UI elements, which means no screen I/O, period. This is not the case for out of process servers (.EXEs). The VFP docs are extremely clear on this, and there's no work-around.
>>>How in the world do you deploy a web service? I can get the exe deployed, but, how do you set up the listener?
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>>You can use the wizard in VFP7 or the one that comes with the SOAP ToolKit. I think you need a DLL instead of an EXE. Also, be sure to mark the class OLE Public. If you have access to FoxTalk, Whil Hentzen did a walkthrough in the last two issues. Or you can see
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fox7help/html/fogrfWebServicesInVisualFoxPro.asp for the VFP documentation.