VFP lets you open tables and databases EXCLUSIVE or SHARED you can SET EXCLUSIVE ON/OFF to determine the default way fox will open file you can also set this for any individual table you open Arnon >Hello! > >I'm a begginer user of VFP 5.0 and I have one problem: > >How do you control the opening of the .DBF's file in your applications running under Network? > >In my class FORMBASE (AS form), I had set the autoOpenTable and autoCloseTable to false. >In the Init method of FORMBASE I called THISFORM.dataenvironment.opentables > >The table (customer.DBF) was opened by another user with EXCLUSIVE. The VFP produce an error 1705 (Access to Table Denied). I intercepted the error in Error Event of FORMBASE, then I called THISFORM.release/THISFORM.unload to abort the execution of FORM. > >The problem is the system return to next line of the FORM.init instead close the form. > >Thanks a lot,