> I am trying to follow the advice from an article I read in FoxPro Advisor > and need some help. I am trying to create a library for my business rules > (BUSINESS.VCX). The first class I want to create is PrimaryKey, a simple > routine to generate a random number to serve as a primary key for any > table. I created a custom class PrimaryKey with a property called > PrimaryKey and a method called GenerateKey. GenerateKey is as follows: I don't think that using random is a the best way to get a primary key I prefer to get the next available key from a table that holds al the primary keys btw, I put stuff like this (including the class defenitions) into the stored procedures where IMHO they belong Arnon