>Hi,
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>Along with many other, I've been looking into frameworks too and doing A LOT of reading. While reviewing the available VMP 2002 help .chm, it seems to heavily rely on views. Does anyone have any comments regarding using SPT and/or OLEDB instead of views with VMP 2002?
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VMP does support SPT as well as views. I couldn't tell you about OLE-DB. You might want to post this question on VMP's message board http://vmpdiscussion.visionds.com/default.asp