Oops. I posted the wrong code. Sorry. That CDatabase database shouldn't be in there. I don't remember why I put it there, probably just so it would compile without a problem. Anyway the code I had, uses a global variable, and it was crashing on close. Looked like this. CDatabase database; __declspec(dllexport) void Connect() { AFX_MANAGE_STATE(AfxGetStaticModuleState( )); database.Open( "EmployeeManager" ); } __declspec(dllexport) void Disconnect() { AFX_MANAGE_STATE(AfxGetStaticModuleState( )); database.Close(); } Mike

Ok I did that and it gave me an access violation. Doesn't really help me though. First off I'm not real good at debugging, so unless its an obvious problem, doing something like you suggested doesn't help me much. It's still the same thing that's causing it. When I try disconnecting from a database from my dll. It really doesn't make any sense to me. It worked before when I opened and closed the database from within an exported function. Then I decided it was a waste of resources to open and close each time I wanted to access it. So I declared a global instance of a CDatabase class. I connect once at program initialization and then call disconnect at close. Seemed pretty simple to me, but now its throwing an exception for no apparent reason. The only solution I can think of is to go back to the old way of opening and closing the DB each time I access it. Mike

Got another question for you that pertains to the question above, if you're able to answer it. A general doc/view question though. The application I want to use the SDI for I have programmed in a dialog based interface. The reason for the switch is to create printable reports, which I don't see a way to do in dialog based. What I'm doing is reading in tables from a database and displaying them in dialog windows, and allowing things to be entered into the database through the dialogs. The question I have is, is this something that should be used in an SDI like I'm thinking or should it be used in an MDI? I'm still pretty new to the doc/view structure and SDI/MDI. I've only really done one program using it about a year ago during my last year of school. Anyway, I don't really need any detailed explanations or anything like that, just wondering what the best way to go is, so I don't spend my time learning something that isn't going to be useful for my project. (I do realize that MDI builds off of SDI, but if MDI is the way to go I'd rather learn how to build the multiple views using that instead of what I'm currently doing with SDI). Thanks, Mike