If you ever are interested in getting into DCOM, I have a start-to-finish tutorial on this site. It is very easy to follow, and is simple. All you do is write a COM object with one method. You call the method, and the method tells you, "Hello, World!". The tutorial starts at http://www.codeproject.com/com/HelloTutorial1.asp. I really recommend you follow straight through and build things yourself while following along. Hope this is a good intro! Really, the usefulness of COM comes out in doing things between more than one computer, but you can put both the "server" and the "client" together on the same computer and you still get everything. Hope it helps! :) Sincerely Yours, Brian Hart "And that's the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, the men are good-looking, and the children are above-average." - Garrison Keillor