>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?

Hmm... there was just/still a thread on here that talked about programatic data environments.

Have you looked at the Codebook framework? This basically seperates the DE from the forms or reports... It makes the DE's reusable, subclassable, etc.

I like it.

BOb