Paul,

You cannot enforce types in VFP, but can generate error output for undeclared variables in VFP7 with this setting:

_VFP.LanguageOptions=1

Look up the topic "LanguageOptions Property" in VFP7 help.

>Is it possible to force VFP to strictly type variables and properties...for instance I can do this:
>
>local xyz as number
>
>xyz=""
>
>and it retains the string. I have to say that I would rather it gave me an error, preferably at design time.