Hi all,

I came across what appears to be an old VFP3 bug that was fixed in VFP5 bug has reappeared in VFP6, although slightly different.

The old bug is:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q163/0/29.asp

The setup is this: I have a view on a table. In the view (not the table), I set a default value using DBSETPROP(). I open the view in buffering mode. If I APPEND BLANK, the default value is set correctly. Issuing a TABLEUPDATE() returns no error, and if I go check in the table, the new record is added correctly, including the default value set in the view definition.

Now, instead of APPEND BLANK, I issue an INSERT INTO .... BROWSEing the view shows that the default value was inserted, the TABLEUPDATE() still returns no error, and back to the table, I can see that the new record was added, but the view's default value was ignored.

This was working fine in VFP5. The program is being updated to VFP6SP4, but we're running into that problem. The problem was reproduced on VFP6SP4 French/Windows 98 French and on VFP6SP4 English/WindowsNT4 Workstation French.

I would like to know: can anyone else reproduce the problem? Can those with VFP7 check if the latest version has the same problem (if that does not cause a problem with NDAs)?

To those working at Microsoft: any chance for a fix? :)

Thanks!