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>>To reiterate briefly: 1. Do you feel that subclassing the vfp dataenvironment is more headache than it is worth? 2. Is the self-contained business object a good thing or should you be able to manipulate data directly?
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>>Any comments are appreciated.
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>You can or not recreate the Dataenvironnement.
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>If you want that your business object can handle some tables, you can manipulate it on code (IF !USED('myTable') ...) like you do in older Fox app. BTW, your class should be able to create the table if it not already exist (the dataenvironnement don't do that!).
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>Once you object can handle all those things, it is realy self contained.
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>:)

Uh...Gerald, yes you can subclass the DataEnvironment.