Hi Terry,

Don't sit up waiting! VFP9 beta will be out in June, and VFP9 will be relesased September/October AFAIK.

BTW, as far as I can remeber you should use:

If VARTYPE(SoAndSo)=="O" and !ISNULL(SoAndSo)
   SoAndSo.Value="New Value"
Endif

>What is the status (if any) of a VFP8 SP2. I am spending a lot of time inventing clever work arounds to prevent leaks in some of the more straight forward action methods.
>
>Example:

>If VARTYPE(SoAndSo)=="O"
>   SoAndSo.Value="New Value"
>Endif

>I just had an incident where VFP error manager told me SoAndSo "is not an object" at SoAndSo.Value="New Value" , even though VFP vetted the test (in the line before) as true!
>
>I will admit this much:
>SoAndSo is a form name, as well as a PRG name and a DBF name!
>
>Should I go back to 6?