Outlook takes a while to initialize. I suspect that you need to find a way to determine that it's initialization is complete before creating the new instance.

>Hi everyone
>
>I noticed that VFP (5,6) crashes when I run the following code. It happens when
>i = 2. I tried to release the object but no joy. This is part of an email button that opens Outlook, and if the user wants to send a second email ... they can't. Any suggestions are more than welcome. Thanks a lot.
>
>FOR i = 1 TO 2
> oOutlookObj = CREATEOBJECT("Outlook.Application")
>ENDFOR