Vladimir,

I don't quite follow the details, but you seem to be describing a flaw that should be easily demonstrable. An explicit example with Excel could make this clearer. Are you now referring to cases where a non-empty cIID argument is passed?

If nobody from Microsoft jumps in on this, it might be a good idea to post another message directly to the attention of John Koziol, with a title something like this: BUG: early binding via CREATEOBJECTEX crashes with C5 in VFP7 and VFP8. It's possible that this thread escaped notice because of your "quaint" choice of wording in the previous title.;-)

Mike

>Hello Michael
>There is other problem in calling createobjectex in early binding mode
>Depending on the soft, installed at PC , it can catch wrong library , ( for excel for example) and this can cause errors with using created object .
>Sergey Kolpachev scaned the code of this function and detected , it uses
>FindFirstFile mask- *.?lb, and this really can read wrong file
>Vladimir