I think the ability to subclass it visually, may be new. Also, I think the ability to specify what DE class a form uses is new.

BOb


>Hi Ken:
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>I keep hearing about VFP8's ability to subclass native data environment and cursor classes. To me, this is nothing new. I already have an app in production that uses custom subclasses of native cursor and data environment objects. Using these objects, I was able to build a generic data access framework for working with SQL Server via SP's. How are the new implementations different from the existing?
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>Charlie