The point is considered in Chapter 9 of Jim Booth's Effective Techniques book from Hentzenwerke. He doesn't come out firmly for one side or the other. I like using the native Data Environment.

>I agree 1000% - "Do Form" shouldn't be in any experienced VFP programmers vocabulary - much less in a framework
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>>The best way to do this would be to save your forms as classes and use CreateObject or NewObject to create an instance of your form.