Re: Place Reports In A DLL

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From: Fred Taylor (ftaylor_at_mvps.org!REMOVE)
Date: 02/23/05 

Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 08:16:01 -0700

No, you can't use a .DLL, that's still not supported (reports have a user
interface and you cant have any UI in a .DLL). You can build them into your
.EXE if you don't want the users changing them, or you can build them into a
separate .EXE if you want to distribute them separately (as a whole) and
still be protected from being changed or deleted. 

-- 
Fred
Microsoft Visual FoxPro MVP
"Microsoft" <andy@work.com> wrote in message 
news:eTg3XtaGFHA.1528@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Hi
>
> I have a number of reports I would like to distribute with my application 
> but instead of 1) compiling them into my EXE or b) distributing them 
> separately I wondered if I could in some way complile them in to a DLL 
> that I could then call from my main EXE. This would make it a lot easier 
> and tidier and there would be less of a risk of users deleting reports by 
> mistake.
>

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