>Stephen,
>Removing the SetFldState() function might cause you to trip over some other framework functionality. Kevin added this code to prevent the IsNewAndEmpty() method of a business object from considering records with just IDs as not being empty. So keep that in mind.
>
>Just FYI,
>Bill

Maybe Kevin could figure add a flag to enable/disbable doing this.

Yeah I know -- another layer of complexity where things can go wrong.

I have some thoughts on the whole issue of frameworks -- I'll post some weekend.