>I bought into Mere Mortals. Worth it's weight in gold for doing most route work in VFP. The specialized classes have hooks and or builders set for slam dunk development.
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>Price was 350 or 450 and the training was 2000 for the week. As an independent it's hard to justify the training dollars but I learned so much in that week to get me profitable with the beast.
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>It's big, adapted from CodeBook, but it's well documented, very well thought out and support is great here on the UT or direct with them.
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>Basically teh premise in mind is to give you portability with your apps. Data handeled in views is just data. You can set up a local view for vfp data. Get it straight and then upsize it to SQL Server or Oracle.
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>After the data is pushed up to the back end you then recreate a remote view to the same data. On the form's bizobject yu can set if it uses local or remote data. Now that is forethought!
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>You just flip the flag to your desired data type and poof! It works.
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>The only code I write pertains to how to manipulate the freaking data. Like who is in need of a credit hold status change. {what I'm doing right now} We are changing from computer set to human intervention with supporting data.
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>We manufacture doors. If you don't pay we won't make any more or ship you parts. That last stipulation is what is screwing us big time.
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>__Stephen Russell
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>>>>Hi Steve and thanks for the code,
>>>>I have been using views for my buffering in network apps. If I use cusorsetprop() instead of views, why do I need views?
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>>>For me it's teh easy way to prototype in VFP and port to SQL Server. I use only views myself and it seems to work just fine.
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>>>LV_Cust is used in the aplication as:
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>>>v_Cust But so can RV_Cust.
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>>>This way on a form by form change it's easy to define if it's local or remove data.
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>>>I cannot see myself re-writing an app to change the back end source.
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>>>__Stephen Russell
>>>Memphis VFP User Group
>>Hi Stephen and thanks for letting me know. That is good thinking to
>>prototype in VFP and port to SQL Server. Could you send me some of your
>>code (a sample)? thanks....
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thanks Stephen - that helps a lot.. thanks again.. :)