What is your VFP framework? You are right in that architecture should be similar with n-tier. However there are specifics in the way the frameworks function. What you were trying to do is probably not wrong thinking so much as it may have been a bit of a cyclic issue because of the way this specific framework functions. I would suppose there was a way to do what you tried without the errors, but my thinking is to separate the data retrieval from the rule iteself. This fits better in the way the framework was designed.
Tim


>Maybe, but my VFP framework uses Business Objects and appears (on the surface at least) to be similar to mm.NET, so I didn't think my logic would have to be so different.
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>>Hi Frank,
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>>VFP to dot net is a different way of thinking but I believe you are doing just fine. Keep going.
>>Tim
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