>I'm hoping this is the case. We've got a VB system that needs to access my VFP system to do the validations. We'd like to build the screen as a class and let them access that way, but we'd like to make sure that we CAN do the thing before we TRY to do the thing...

Dorris,

Writing a VFP COM DLL is the best idea I've heard. It can access the data and enforce business rules and data can be passed back and forth to the VB app.