I use Visual MaxFrame Professional. In a way that was a bad thing because I was spoilt by the attention to detail that Drew put in his documentation, giving loads of examples of how to achieve different things :) Maybe that's there in MM .NET, but I have great difficulty working my way through the help file. I think the part that surprised me was that all the values for the entire BO/Entity were not available in the business rule, so then I had to get the values I needed. And you also know of my frustration of having multiple BOs on a form all based on the same BO class which MM.NET seems to have an issue with. Funnily enough, I "grew up" on CodeBook and had used MM VFP for a while too, so I thought MM .NET would not have been too different to those.

>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.
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>>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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