>Gee I don't know, sounds like you are contesting something... Seriously, I don't care. I am amazed at how long this thread is. I don't see where the mystery is. VFPCOM is a pretty simple thing. When it comes to working with tables, there is no secret or mystrery or smoke and mirrors...
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Yeah, I agree. I think that this would be a 2 minute conversation in person, because we are obviously miscommunicating.

The only thing I can think of to clarify is if you would put together a simple COM server sample in VFP that returns the number of records in the current alias of the calling process.

Shouldn't take long to do, and it would clear up the miscommunication...