Brian -
[Sorry I'm late on this -- I haven't been on UT in a while!]
One thing confuses me about this post: I am going through the VMP 2002 tutorial right now, and the n-tier sections do use SPT. And in fact, as I recall, they recommend that approach. Are you looking at something different than I am?
zahid

>Hi Mike,
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>This will be the first time I'd be working with a commercial framework. So the curve is going to be sharp. What I want to avoid is having to learn the framework using views, then relearning it using SPT. So it would be nice to have the examples of n-tier using SPT too... (then again, we can't have everything, can we?) ...now that I think more about this, I should probably take the time to learn both, since a less complex project could always come along...
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>- Brian
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>Hi Brian
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>>VMP 2002 can work with more sources of data than direct table access, local and remote views. The examples present just one possible approach.
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