Well... you can't use this DLL from VFP. Anyway, the error is not because of the wrong returned type, but because (most probably) the dll exports C++ functions and not C functions. And this is another reason that you cannot use it from VFP.

Vlad

>I am using VFP5 and I need to use a DLL with most of their returns as CStrings from MFC.The return from the method in the DLL is a CString. Does anyone knows which is the proper way to reference them in the DECLARE?
>I keep getting the error that the DLL can not find the point of entry for the method.
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>Thanks.