>Hi All.
>
>I've been dinking around with a COM server that I wrote in Visual Foxpro 8. It works beautifully except when it gets to the part where it tries to instantiate a VFP 6.0 Dll I created. The code is quite simple in the COM server, it looks something like:
>
>ObjDllClass = CreateObject("MyDll.MyDllClass")
>IF TYPE('ObjDllClass') <> 'O' THEN
> MESSAGEBOX("COULD NOT INIT DLL CLASS!")
>ENDIF
>
>When I compile this COM server and try to use I get:
>
> OLE error code 0x80004005: Unspecified Error
>
>I know its the line of code that is calling the CreateObject method because I've commented that line out and I do not receive the error anymore.
>
>Is it possible that you just can't call a VFP-created dll from a VFP created COM Server?

Nope, I've done it many, many times myself. First, as Larry mentioned, the 6.0 runtimes have to be available. Second, why not simply re-compile in 8.0 (provided, of course you're not using any of the newly reserved keywords and property names)?