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>David gave you what I believe to be the correct story. The VFP Team originally did one half of XMLUpdateGram(). I attempted to do the second half (round-trip) because I needed it at the time. This is way before XMLAdapter showed up in VFP.
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>When they got around to it, in VFP8, the basically discarded it as obsolete and replaced it with DiffGram() and the new XMLAdapter.
Alex,
I read the article Dave suggested on XMLAdapter and conceptually I can see how the XMLAdapter will work. But then I thought, this would be like jumping through a lot of hoops to move the data from UI to BO. I think I can do the same, much simpler and faster, with using VFP array as a medium for data transfer. I have done it on another project with arrays and it works well. I guess if I had to make this project work also with .NET, XML would be more suitable.
Thank you for your input.
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