Narrad,
Forgive me but I have no idea how this message applies to either the thread topic OR my previous response. Perhaps you need to start a new thread in 'VFP in General' or 'Chatter' to get responses to your observations / question.

Rick

>Rick,
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>As you can guess - with the components area, I am looking for a way to get RADs up and running without reinventing the wheel.
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>I actually did quite well with fox for DOS 2.0. Then I got hooked on Oracle and writing apps in Visual C++. I even do Java and C#.
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>But what I really want to do is devise an all purpose class in VFP which can handle most small businesses. This way I can just - hopefully - derive and augment the objects and voila!
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>Isn't this possible?
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>Narrad