John,

I meant dynamically, with VFP6's new AddProperty feature.

Cheers,

Jim N

>Hi Jim...
>
>>Couldn't one also code to add a property if a new field was detected six >months later?
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>Sure, but that requires recompilation of the business object. I think what Jim B. is getting at deals with encapsulation. With a method, you can write generic code - perhaps to to serve up an ADO recordset. It would be up to the client application to specficially deal with the new field.