>Could anyone recommend me some good reference books ? > > Even though this is for VFP3, it all still applies to VFP5 with very few exceptions. It covers all of the bases and I recommend it to anyone who wants to know what in the heck VFP is supposed to do. <g> At URL see http://mspress.microsoft.com/mspress/Books/Des/724.HTM . Pros Talk Microsoft® Visual FoxProTM 3,The Author: Pinnacle Publishing Special Reports ISBN: 1-57231-233-5 Pages: 928 Disk: 1 CD Price: $49.95 US Release: 30-Apr-96 Level: Int/Adv Learn to use the features that give Visual FoxPro its competitive edge! THE PROS TALK MICROSOFT VISUAL FOXPRO 3 gives you key insights into using Visual FoxPro 3 to develop state-of-the-art, high-performance, low-maintenance database applications. It combines four valuable strategic reports: Visual FoxPro Data Dictionary, by Doug Hennig; Developing Client/Server Applications with Visual FoxPro and SQL ServerTM, by Robert Green; Visual FoxPro Forms and Functions, by Stephen A. Sawyer; and Object-Oriented Programming with Visual FoxPro, by David Frankenbach. ==Carl Carl J. Warner http://www.mindspring.com/~cjwarner/mcfug.htm