Well, I'm in the initial design/architecture phase, so I wanted to work from a basic assumption From Someone Ahead of Me (TM) before I got started. But I am leaning towards the file-drop method anyway since by doing that I get a record of the "transaction" saved for later audit (or I can drop it into a queue or even a table).


>Run some tests using both methods and let us all know which one is better:)
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>>Looking for a "good blanket statement" (oxymoron?) about some COM-.NET architecture. I am trying to determine if it's faster to pass a string of XML from a .NET assembly to a VFP MTDLL (the MTDLL is inside a COM+ app so it's always "on"), or if it's faster for the .NET object to write the XML to disk, pass the filepath to the MTDLL, and let the MTDLL to FileToString().
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>>Thanks.