>Hi Pete,
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>>I read recently ( in Advisor or Foxtalk or ...) that you can control VSS from VFP using automation or Activex, but I cannot for the life of me remember where I read it, any ideas??
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>It was probably the article about automating the creation setups for larger applications. VSS automation was used in the first step.
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>There's a document in MSDN that talks about automation. It describes all obejcts, colelctions, properties and methods.
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>Christof

There is also a document of MS website talking about this automation.

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q163/4/07.asp

The syntaxis is a bit C like, but you can get there by looking at the VB samples supplied.