Mark,

I sure appreciate all the time you gave me on this. Thanks so much!

Rodd

>>It still seems to disregard my schema and I wind up with all memo fields.
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>>Maybe I just need to drop the VFP CA and look at yours, eh? <g>
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>That should be a good start until you get the hang of using a CA with ADO. The problem is, you will not be able to use the builder against your database. However, you can use it to build the VCX and initial CA classlib. Then you can modify one of the CA subclasses to query to data you need.