>A friend asked me if it is possible with VFP to make secure, from prying eyes, the data design of an application...ie - the DBC and it's meta-knowledge. I know we can encrypt the actual data in our tables, but can we keep competitors from finding out what our data design is? Can we something similar so that the DBC's information about Tables, Indexes, and Persistent Relations can't be read?

Richard,

If you don't create views at runtime (they get written into the DBC) you could include the DBC into your EXE. Be sure to weight all the arguments before doing so. I'm thinking of DBC maintenance and this sort of things...

José