Hi Kevin.

I did as suggested in the manual (by using oledbadapter on a test form and it tested ok)
I did however trim out the connection string to mimic what eas in the manual (got rid of pswd= and q whole pile of other stuff

My String is now:-

databases
add key="DFISR\Connection" value="Provider=vfpoledb.1;DataSource=C:\ISRC\DFISRC.DBC"
databases


I have ataken out the arrows and slashes just for this message
Does this look ok ?

Regards,

Gerard

>Gerard,
>
>Looking at the last few lines of the stack trace:
>
>> at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnection.ProcessResults(Int32 hr)
>> at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnection.InitializeProvider()
>
>It looks like you're using an OLEDB provider to access data. Do you have the proper OLEDB provider installed on your machine? If you're trying to access OLEDB data, you need the VFP OLEDB data provider.
>
>Regards,