Erik,
No one speaks for John.... <g>
Great.. That's the kind of answer I wanted to hear...
Best,
DD
>>Typically, how would you approach the issue of activating the appropriate set of data at the appropriate time?
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>PMFJI- not to speak for John here, but the data access features in VB (including VB) take expressions. IOW, you specify a datasource to your ADO connection object in the form of a string. This string can be built dynamically, grabbed from the registry, whatever.
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>For almost all of the cases the VFP programmers use macros, they are only using them as a crutch to perform tasks that should have been provided for by the language. In the case of VB, since there is no macro substitution, most of this functionality has been provided for in the language itself.
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>Even in VFP, dynamic object resolution and dynamic property setting can be done without macros.
Best,
DD
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