Steve, with DLLs you can put the data into a DBC and call it from VB or C programs. Any other VFP program will be able to talk to your DBC without any extra additions. Just "OPEN MyDBC"

Barbara

>Originally I had everything in DE. But the people I am doing this for asked me to make all the tables free and to use the USE command specifically. So I removed everything from the DE. And made the tables free standing so mutiple apps and/or projects could use them in the future.
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>Every time I think I know this VFP software, it throws me a curve ball. I used to be a machine language programmer on mainframes for a bunch of years and never had this much FUN??
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>I will digest what you have said. Thanks again.