I'm glad you really really really agree with me! =0)

~~Bonnie


>>>Data menu / Add New Data Source
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>>>I understand that the DataSet is not the same thing as the back end database, but if you use the wizard they are in fact mapped 1:1.
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>>Well ... stop doing that!!! IMHO, wizards suck anyway. I don't know why MS insists on dumbing down some of these things ... it only leads to a "worst practice" generation of developers.
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>>~~Bonnie
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>Really really really true. (we've discussed this before) It is just what happened in Foxpro when they showed us how you could create an SCX form then drop a table on it. (and there are people still reading this message saying "yeah, what's wrong with that?" and then in another thread asking "I need to convert my app to SQL server - how do I do it?")
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>Repeating my favorite analogy : If you want to learn to ski - don't learn to snow-plow. It may be easier to learn and less scarey in the beginning - but you'll spend a whole lot of itme unlearning it before you ever get to real skiing.