>There have been a couple of good answers to your question already, and of course the answer is debateable, depending on your program's size, complexity, need for portability, etc.
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>Just to allow another idea: you can Scatter/Gather (or assign in code) Table Field values to Object Properties, then bind the Properties to the Textboxes, etc. This creates a transaction layer that allows for easier transition to another Data Engine in the future (like SQL,Oracle, etc.)...
That's the old-fashioned method. In VFP, you can use buffering - basically, VFP keeps care of many of the tasks related to storing old vs. new values.
This should work both for local and remote data.
Hilmar.
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