Hi Paul,

Another way to look at it is that static methods are C#'s implementation of UDF's, with added OOP benefits of course, but otherwise you would have to instantiate an object to do anything. IIRC, static classes actually do get instantiated internally. In other words, if you added a constructor to your MyHello class, it would run the first time you called any static method on that class. I don't know what's going on under the hood, but it essentially works like a public object. To get similar behavior, you could instantiate a global object in your startup program that would be available to the entire app, then you could call the methods just like you would on a static class. Personally, I use UDF's for utility type stuff or add methods to our global application object when it makes sense.

>Thanks Craig. That's what I figured.
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>>Hi Paul,
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>>User Defined Functions are the closest thing in VFP.
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