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As far as prompting the user to save, a good place to do this in the
form's QueryUnload event. This event tells you why the form is
unloading, and also gives you a way to cancel the unload.

As far as terminating program goes, it's best to avoid End, since it
doesn't give you, the programmer, any opportunity to clean up (close
files, save data, etc.)

A stand-alone VB program (not an ActiveX component) will terminate
itself when:
  A) There are no forms loaded
  B) There is no executing code
  C) There are no events queued up for processing

If you're working on a "simple" program with one or a few forms, the
best way to terminate it in code is to unload each form (Unload MyForm).


David Elford wrote:
> 
> I just wanted to know about terminating a program properly. I'm aware that
> using the END statement will terminate a vb program, but what about when you
> click the x button in the top right corner of a form? I'd like to be able to
> prompt the user with an option to save their work before exiting. I can get
> a message box to appear by placing code in the form_terminate() function,
> but i can't stop it from terminating.
> 
> Any ideas would be appreciated.
> 
> Dave