>Can you use ON SHUTDOWN instead?

Yes I could and have but that does not fire either. According to my log files....

From what I can tell there are 3 basic solutions to running a VFP app as a service that I have found.

1) The Srvany Solution
2) The XYNTService Solution
3) And an FLL solution from Tracy Pearson

In 1 and 2, the Service manager calls another exe which loads your app. So I am assuming the Service manager would talk to these exe's on shutdown these EXE's would in return talk to my VFP exe

In 3 the Service Manager loads my VFP exe, I load an FLL which then handles somethings that are difficult to do from within VFP.


With 1 the app is killed before any communications is completed to the vfp exe
With 2 there is a timeout feature that can be set for the XYNTService to wait before it attempts to kill the vfp exe.
With 3 its a new piece of code, not meant for the general market, so at this point we went with 2

ON SHUTDOWN does not fire, unless my code has a problem which could be the same for doing the bindevent I showed above. At this point I am trying to verify what is the normal actual shutdown message, trying to cross check things.