Hi Kevin,

you're a person of few words. <s>

Markus Egger and Markus Winhard did a truly fantastic job on this topic in FoxPro advisor a year or two back.

In short, from what I remember: classes stick to datasessions; and a datasession remains, even if the ds object isn't held somewhere, so long as a cursor remains open in it.

In my applications, I have a custom object sitting on top of oApp, which has its own ds. That way I can keep views open during the entire life of the application, and access them, through methods, from anywhere in the application. So I don't have to be concerned about all the cursors being close, I hold the datasession object in a property of my custom class, closing the data and nulling the ds object when the custom object destroys.

hth,

Hank