>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?

Visual Studio 6 has a DE designer tool that I believe will do what you want. I saw it being used in VB6 and VJ++ at PC Expo. It looks like, from what I saw in a brief demo, you can save the DE as an ADO/COM object, for reuse in any of the languages.