I am a rookie to building client server applications but know how to use Foxpro tables/dbc fairly well. I have a client who wants a fairly substantial application built - and they want the backend to be VFP for now, but may wish to migrate to Client Server later. The product will be marketable -- but more valuable if it supports client/server. So I would like the application to be able to support both backends. I'm trying to figure out exactly how best to accomplish this. My fundemental question is this:

What is the best approach to take in building a single application that supports BOTH VFP and Client Server backends?

A friend (who may or may not know more than me on this subject) said I should access the VFP DBC exclusively through remote views/ODBC so that the data access methods will be similar for both backends. Are there advantages or disadvantages to this approach?

I realize that entire books are written on this subject. I was hoping that one of you could steer me in the right direction.

Thanks.