>I'm not sure I like the concept of RELEASEing a property, but if that's >what pushes it over the edge, so be it... >I think we're agreed that the form's Release() method is the correct >placement, though. Now, does this total construct work as we'd expect? This is the Microsoft way of doing things. They fixed what they consider to be a bug in 5.0a. For us, we might consider this a bug but by design, at the Microsoft level, it does not seems to be the case. So, if you establish object references in your form, yes, you'll need to do that or plug that concept inside of your framework. There was several discussions in FoxTeach since yesterday about that. Yes, that's the way to do it.