I'm not really sure. I am trying to put together a generic template to be used by several of our customers and I thought this would be a good way to develop a front end, back end and utilize com components to handle the table updates. That way when we have a customer who's needs vary from the others all we have to do is change the interface (front end). I thought this would be handled better in a network environment using .vcx components. I would gladly listen to any suggestions on other ways to do it and advantages/disadvantages of vcx vs. prg.