I am wondering if you more experienced OOP developers could point me in the
right direction please. I seem to have coded myself into a long thin alley.
The problem is I want a higher level object to hold the code to open the
tables but I want the lower level objects to run this code ...

I have this line in my class's INIT method:
       this.AddObject("fso", "Scripting.FileSystemObject")
But this does not work.  The error is "Object Class is Invalid for this
Container"

I created a PROPPAGE class by subclassing FORM, placing this new class in
my own VCX that I called "FoxTools.vcx".  Now in my current project, I
subclassed my PROPPAGE class.  This worked fine, until...
...I moved my "FoxTools" library up a directory to provide better sharing.  

I am creating a COM interface for a 3rd party VFP network (LAN based)
application so that other developers using any COM compliant language can
read and write data to the applications data (VFP) tables.
I have been reading up on COM and got myself even more confused. How would

Has anyone seen square boxes in a memo field. My database is corrupted
and I want to locate all records where the memo field has been
compromised. The memo field is populated with boxes. What is this
character? If someone could tell me how to search for this and if

i have a problem with set calsslib to .. additive. First i was asking myself
where my fault is. But now i am wondering if it is my fault at all ...
The situation:
i created an application based on serveral classlibs. All this stuff is

in a init method i save the old resource in property: cOldReso, in my
destroy method i want to restore these old values with:
luTemp = this.cOldReso
if !empty( luTemp )

Given that my custom methods in my custom object need error-handling, what
is the best way to go about this?  Should I/Can I still be using ON ERROR,
as in "ON ERROR this.ErrorHandler()" or something like that?  I see that
there is an Error event handler provided with objects, ...

i'm learning VFP at thh moment using the book building visual studio
applications based on a visual foxpro 6.0 foundation. Unfortunately i'm
stuck at the moment....
First a little bit of example code:

I am still using VFP6. Can anyone help me find a way to pass the name of a
file in the current directory, along with file extension and date and TIME
last modified (As would be shown in the DOS DIR command)  to a VFP variable
?