Does anyone know a way to determine if the application was started with a DO
inside the development environment instead of just double clicking on the EXE
name?

Using SQL Ent 2005 and VFP 9.0. I have a flat file generated by VFP that
needs to be imported to SQL 2005 on a repeat basis.   The caveat is that
this can not be scheduled on the SQL side because the time the file is ready
to import is known only to VFP.

When I use code similar to that below I end open with two open tables.
Technically I don't want either open. How can I find out what ALIAS the
system has given to both these tables in the least amount of code?
cFile1 = "c:\x.dbf"

? "test" ++ "this"

I need to automate email from VFP 5.0 (yes, 5.0) using Outlook Express.  It
will be done on XP Pro machines.  Any suggestions what to use?  I saw
information about CDO.  Will that work?  I'm new to this so any help is
appreciated.

A while ago a Stefan Wuebbe wrote this in response to a question about how
to email from VFP.  
"
You can forward it to the operating system "neutrally" by using

I have a grid with 4 columns linked to DATABASE patients.
I want the first column in the grid to display the patient name from a
patient ID so for controlsource field for column1 as
=patient_name(patients.patientid)

I have an application that calculates customer charges and prints
invoices. I had it in VFP5 and now am using VFP9. For some reason
a few customers get random errors in result calculations and printouts.
I get their data and can never reproduce their problems on any of

I tried to instal a printer.  I then tried to print a word document.  It did
not work.
I landed up in photoshop.  I do not know why.  I know find that my word
document has changed to tif.  I cannot read it the text is nonsensical.  How

I have 2 cursors, in the upper part of the page I want to print content of
cursor 1, and in the lower part the cursor 2, which may extend over several
pages. How can I do that ?

I have the following MAIN on "SERVER02", taken pretty much from the Foxpro
help files.  "SERVER02" is an XP PRO system.
NOTE:  The following all takes place on \\SERVER02
   DEFINE CLASS Person AS Custom OLEPUBLIC

Just curious about an issue I recently noticed.
I have a 170-field table.
I MODIFY STRUCTURE to add a new field between existing fields 115 and
116 (for example).

I am using VFP 9 SP1, MySql 4.1.9-nt and the MySql 3.51 ODBC driver.
Data from a blob field displays correctly from within MySql but converts to
Gen when I run a query via SPT in VFP (same result with SELECT * ... and
SELECT field_name...)

When I am looking for a file from within foxpro 8 or 9 the views are no
longer in alphabetical order.  I know I can change them from the view menu
icon. They always change back to decending date.  This is only in foxpro.
Windows browsers are fine.  Is there a setting I may have ...

we distribute a small program named Intelliform, vfp9 sp1
runtime
From one of our customers:
"This is becoming an increasing problem and is driving me