Claude,

>George,
>Sorry, for most intents and purposes vfp multi-threaded dlls(mtdlls) are indeed multithreaded(thus the name). Multiple threads are running at the same time. The technology behind it doesn't really matter as far as this is concerned...

Oh, but it does!

In fact, if you don't understand how this works you can get into serious trouble very quickly.

For example, try setting up an ASP.NET page without setting ASPCOMPAT="true" and you can see just how multi-threaded a VFP COM object is. Without ASPCOMPAT ASP.NET will create your VFP COM object on a true freethreaded (MTA) thread and your objects will blow up at worst or do all sorts of crazy stuff when they are running simultaneously at best.

MTDLLs are a simulation of multi-threading and really the COM system provides this for you. VFP can play by STA rules. It's important to understand this with ASP.NET for example. The STA imposition on VFP MTDLLs in fact is one of the reasons why ASP.NET is much slower in calling VFP COM objects than classic ASP was for example.

It works, but it's important that one understands what's actually happens behind the scenes lest you get into trouble and not have any idea why things are going wrong...

+++ Rick ---