>With respect to to the view designer yes. With respect to SPT, no.. You can use SPT in VB. Prior to ADO, you would need to work with RDO and DAO. But, you could still use SPT.
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>The View Designer is an incomplete wrapper around SPT. It sucks...

No doubt... but, you can still hand code Views.

>I really don't have a problem with SPT.... SPT is not a VIEW. The only knock against them both is that the end result is a VFP cursor. You cannot pass VFP cursors to components....
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This is very true... that is where XML comes into the picture.


>>Anyway... how did we get on this thread... Ken has his solution.
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>Just taking it a step further...
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>Good discussion Bob... :)

I am curious, with your new found religion, have you moved away from VFE, or do you still/just use it for Local data apps? At one time you were a big VFE proponent.

BOb