>Hi All ---
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>Running VFP6 SP3: Have something really weird (at least to me) going on. I have a Form with a Private DataSession. It can launch a modal Form using the Default DataSession (it inherits the table from the DataSession of the parent Form).
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>As an experiment, I changed the child Form to Modeless. Ran the application; opened the parent and the child. Went back to the parent and closed it. The child Form still works fine.
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>What is going on here? I thought when I closed the parent Form, I'd get "table not available" or some other error message because the DataSession that opened the table is now gone.

Nope - the Data Environment is an object, and the child form maintained a pointer to it, so the object didn't get killed off automagically...a good thing about dangling object refs in ths case.

Now osme tables may have been closed by closing the parent form, but that effect is different...