Ouch, no wonder they fixed it in VFP8. (see Sergey's reply)

>I am getting a Database object is in use error when I try to open the same view in multiple programs.
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>We ran into this same issue back in 1999 when we were working on a project using the Codebook framework with 200 concurrent users.
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>The only solution that we came up with was to define a separate dbc for the views and download this dbc to the local machines on app startup to avoid the contention issue.