Thank you.
I will try that on Friday. I will update you then.

Neil

>>The app bombs because
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>> C:\Mere Mortals .NET Framework\Samples\Mere Mortals Framework Northwind Sample Application\VFPData\Northwind.dbc"
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>>does not exist on my computer. Does anyone have the vfp dbc and the tables to share?
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>The Northwind database is normally included with VFP. For example, on my machine (running VFP 8), it's in the:
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>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual FoxPro 8\Samples\Northwind directory. You should just be able to point the app.config file to it. Try doing a search on your C: drive for the Northwind DBC.