[progress Communities] [progress Openedge Abl] Forum Post: Re: Newbie To Progress But An...

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A .r is the compiled version of a .p or .cls source code file. By "compiled" we mean that it is converted to p-code, vaguely similar to Java, which must be interpreted by a run time engine. So, no, you can't wrap it into a DLL. Modern versions of Progress, which include your 11.1 also have a CLR bridge which allows direct use of .NET components ... with some limitations such as only the top thread if the component is multi-threaded. But, it works very well, either for UI or for certain types of back end processing which would be hard to do in ABL.

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