Richard, you have to have a third clause in an IIF() statement, so .T. is as good as anything. Basically, it's saying if QueryUnload returns .F., don't do anything.

Barbara

>Thanks for your input Barbara and David. I'll move my cleanup to the queryunload method. BTW the native framework in VFP6 uses something like:
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>IIF(Thisform.QueryUnload(), Thisform.Release(), .T.)
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>I'm not sure why they return .T. is the QueryUnload fails.