>Hi Naomi,
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>Again thanks for your quick response.
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>What I am trying to do is create a COM EXE server. The user calls a method in the COM server that calls a form. The form instantiates a view, which presumably is a table in the data session. The form closes, and the function returns to the caller.
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>Since instantiating the view is actually time consuming, and, the table will not change from call to call, I would like the next call to the form to be able to use the same table.
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>I know that this isn't the way you're supposed to use COM servers, but I have only one user who needs this.
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>So, if the form is sharing the same data session as the object that called it. When the form closes, does the table live on in the common data session?
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>All of this would be much easier to figure out if I could actually run the COM server under the VFP debugger, but that is not possible without a great deal of effort.
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>Thanks,
>Jim

If the table was opened before the form was called, it's going to stay open. If you opened the table in the form, then I believe it's a property of DE to AutoClose tables which you may want to set to false.