>If I am writing code in the .init of a listbox and I want to release the form, What is the correct method of doing this? I tried
>
>thisform.release
>nodefault
>
>this did not work, the form loaded anyway.

You cannot RELEASE the form until it´s been INITialized. You could add a property (DoNotInit) and in the listbox you could then write

ThisForm.DoNotInit=.T.

After, in the Init method of the form, write

RETURN ThisForm.DoNotInit

and the form will not load.

(Note, anyway, that all other objects will execute their INIT methods. You cannot prevent that, but if all INITs begin with

IF ThisForm.DoNotInit
RETURN .F.
ELSE
....your code here
ENDIF

it will be faster.

HTH!