>Hi Erik,
>
>I know that you can not reference controls in the load that is why I open the tables there.
>
>If you follow the steps I posted yesterday you should be able to reproduce the same error.
>
>1) Create a form class based on form with a grid on it.
>2) create a form based on your form class.
>3) open a table in the load method. ( USE sometable IN 0 )
>4) set the grid RecordSource("sometable") and
> column ControlSource ("sometable.field").
>5) run form
>
>Then take out the use command in the load and open the table in the Data Environment and it should work fine. I think this is a bug.
>
>Thanks.


Works fine for me. Do you have SET EXCLUSIVE ON? Are these base classes?