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>>In my comments, I think it is fair to say I confused n-tier with COM, which is definitly not the case.
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>I suppose you're talking about ADO when you say that.
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>Just FYI, I just got of several large projects that had major problems
>with ADO travelling across the middle tier. ADO kept locking up MTS objects over DCOM connections. Three different applications at three different locations all with the same problem <s>... not very inspiring. different configs in each lockups would occur either with straight ADO or ADOR recordsets.
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>Problem was resolved by hand marshalling ADO record sets as strings.
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>So much for cross process features - if you have to go the string route you can just as easily do that from a DBF.
I suppose these are not your apps here. But wouldn't this be an opportunity for the save as XML option? Haven't used it myself, but the books say that a recordset saved as XML is just a formatted string that you can pass around as if it was a bona fide recordset object.