Hi Martin,

>I assume that you aren't trying to display something from *within* the DLL. You can put any UI on a DLL, but I think you already know that? Have you tried to log that to a .txt, for example, to see what's arriving. Debugging DLLs is hard, and that's one of the things I do often. I basically use a TXT as my "debugout".

Yep, but no joy. See my response to Larry

>>The question is: Can you pass an XML string to an ASP and have a VFP DLL process it?
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>Yes you can. There must be some tiny detail there.

It was the presence of CHR(13) in the XML string.

>>There's a side issue here too. Despite all my attempts to make sure that the object reference gets released, it doesn't. I've got to re-boot to re-build the DLL. Anyone have a clue about this?
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>The DLL is cached inside IIS. You have two ways:
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>The hard one is to open a CMD window ans issue IISRESET. That woudl reset the whole IIS -not very elegant for a production server.
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>The second one is to put your DLL into COM+. Then the only thing you have to do is stop that single package, install the new version, and that's all.
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Yeah, that's the next item on the agenda, getting it into COM+ and passing the string that way. This thing is more or less a research project that I'm using how to do things like this. Haven't messed with COM+ yet either, so youi might say that I'm behind the curve there too.

BTW, thanks for the nice remarks in another thread about the WSH article.