>Anyone know any online VFP references to "the most commonly used properties and events"? Some students are trying to learn VFP by themselves and they are finding the number of methods and objects daunting and are also asking me questions like "when do we use the INIT vs LOAD events?"

I recomend you to get book 'The Fundamentals: Building Visual Studio Applications on a Visual FoxPro Foundation' http://www.hentzenwerke.com/catalogavailability/fund6.htm