Correct. And if the object is a COM created using its ProgID, it will not have a Parent property (in fact, it will not have many other standard VFP properties).

Vlad

>... again to be even more complete one should add that aProperty.parent does not equal oObject which it would if you would issue
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>oObject.addobject("Aproperty","Aclass")
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>Subtle but it may be relevant.
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>Marc