Many thanks everyone for your help so far

Had a quick look in the samples folder of VFP, & theres a sample form that seems to work fine. Great!

It's using the solutions.vcx class

Don't want to use a form though, how do I programmaticaly get the class as an object from code instead of being on a form?

>>I've written a couple of routines for my customer to encrypt several fields in a table, so that the data can't be copied & taken off site
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>>I've used the "_cryptapi" class, (customers preference)
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>>Using the class if I encrypt a string, decrypting it gives me my original string, but when I put the encrypted string into the original field that the string is from in the table, when I read it back later and decrypt it I sometimes get the right results, sometimes I don't.
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>>TAI
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>Make the field to be CHAR BINARY or MEMO BINARY (NOCPTRANS)