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>When you say COM components do you mean using OLE PUBLIC and building the VFP project into a .dll?
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>Yes.
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>I think a lot more VFP developers build COM components compared to build web services....
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>I agree.
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>>its a shame because the web service support in VFP 8 is amazing, IMHO.
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>VFP 6 and 7 support web services to just about the same degree.

XMLToCursor makes things more convenient.....

but yea most of the 'new features' for web services come from COM style objects you create using 'createobject' so it could be done in vfp 6 or 7...