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>i contemplated the replies i had received and it seems that the application needs to get out of its 2.x roots. my approach was basically to use the old code and plug in the vfp where the 2.x stuff did'nt work anymore. it seems i am trying to force the issue with the old code and am continually hitting a brick wall.
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>already as far behind as i am on my deadline i need to rethink this and use the vfp as the primary and 2.x secondary. So, Jim if you are reading this i would appreciate your input too.
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Once you get past your deadline, buy a copy of Jim Booth/Steve Sawyer's book Effective Techniques for Application Development with Visual FoxPro 6.0 from Henzenwerke Publishing and read it. Several times. If you don't have time to refactor your code to take advantage of the new features of VFP, you don't have time to give the book an adequate read.