>I have VFP as a desktop client and also as a mid-tier DCOM object. The desktop client should do a createobjectex() and in the INIT method of the remote object, a DBC and remote view to Oracle gets created. How do I get that cursor/.dbf from the remote object to the desktop client DBC, flowing over the DCOM transport (the createobjectex() connection)? Since the cursor is binary (and I intend to encrypt/compress it also), I am having a hard time wrapping my head around how to move binary data back-n-forth quickly (I can pass strings OK) through DCOM.
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EncodeDBF/DecodeDBF should work fine. You just have use DBF() to get the actual file of your cursor. YOu can't really use the updatable features of a view if you do it this way, so why use a view at all? I think that SPT is probably more appropriate here...