Donald,

The VFP OLE server can't do anything to cause screen I/O. I've got a server based on Form and it just sits in the corner of the screen. I change the form.BackColor to indicate 3 conditions, Ok, Error, Logging. Other than that it's Error() method only calls a udf that uses textmerge to log the error to a file. The methods that the client call all return error state if an error occurs. I don't think you can just shutdown the server, it's the resposibility of the client to get rid of the thing it CreateObjected.

>>You can't do any screen IO from a VFP Server. You'll need to write the information to the error log.
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>Thanks for responding Craig.
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>Actually I am using a MessageBox call and I got it to work with very basic information. It still manages to go back to the VFP message. Now I have to figure out how to get the class to release without returning to the method that called the error.