Hi, Howard.

>I've heard a lot about business object over the past few months and am a little ignorant on their usefulness. Can someone explain (in beginner's language) what advantage business objects would have over - say - putting all the code in PRG's or classes that are separate from the "presentation layer"?

I´m don´t know if I´m able to explain in an easy way about BizObjs... but I´d urge you to write some wonderful books that has very good information about this: Advanced OOP with VFP 6 (by Markus Egger), and Effective Technics (by Jim Booth and Steve Sawyer), both from www.hentzenwerke.com

also, you´ll find tons of info on http://fox.wikis.com