Hi George ---

>I thought it might be interesting to get some feedback on the following.
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>I believe that the DataEnvironment is too closely tied to Forms/Reports. What I'd like to see is an independent DE that could be manipulated without the need for either a Form or Report. It would especially helpful in developing forms that would be more re-usable than they are now.
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>Thoughts? Opinions?

I agree with you. An OOP version of the old SET VIEW TO? It would be pretty neat to be able to build a DataEnvironment as a class and then have a new Form property (maybe DESource) where you could specify a class or Default for old-style DE.