>Hi Alex,
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>Assuming your friend is familiar with VFP, you could start him out with Jim Booth's n-tier white paper at http://jamesbooth.com/n-tier.htm. Also, Doug Hennig has a paper on n-tier available for download at http://www.stonefield.com (click on the "technical papers" link for a list of the individual papers). I'm sure there are many other good ones too, but these two come to mind right away.
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>And since you mentioned SQL Server, I'd recommend the book "Client/Server Applications with Visual FoxPro and SQL Server" by Urwiler, DeWitt, Levy, & Koorhan, published by Hentzenwerke.


Thanks for your help.

He's into vb, but hopefully he'll grasp the concepts and general ideas behind the philosophy.

"Converting" him to vfp is probably next in the list, but it'll be hard. He was able to put together apps in VB (don't ask me about quality) right out of the box, while he spent a whole day tinkering with vfp and couldn't get a simple "hello world" working.

Alex