>Alex,
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>The article clearly states that "This behavior is by design". The best you can do is to post it to VFP wishlist.

Where is the wish list? That is what I mean to do by addresing it to the VFP team.

By the way Sergey, do you know of an intermediate object that doesn't need a large language runtime, perhaps written in C, that acts as a go between in this case? Would that be a bridge pattern?

Thanks,

Alex

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>>A problem exists when passing a variable by reference to an ActiveX if it built with MFC and expects a variant. This is a known issue, but it still needs some sort of VFP-side resolution or workaround because a VFP user normally cannot change the ActiveX control.
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>>See reference:
>>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q177575
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>>I take this opportunity to thank to the VFP team for their good work. Alex