>I've just created a dcom object based on session and although my settings in foxpro are to set exact on, it seems to build as set exact off, is this normal? I had to put a set exact on into the init of the class to get things to work.

Your VFP IDE settings have no effect on runtime whatsoever. In addition, the SET EXACT command (as many other SET command) is scoped to the current datasession. The default settings for it is OFF.