I will definitely try Cursor Adapter. Thank you.
>You can still do that with VFP8. Place a Cursor Adapter on the form and convert to/from XML.
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>>You just brought up another point that I have to take into account: data binding. I thought I would implement my 1st phase of n-tier still having controls bound to the table fields. But ultimately this has to be changed.
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>>You see, I have 2 goals in mind: 1. to put business logic in one place so that I don't duplicate code in various forms (which I do now in my application and it is a pain to maintain) 2. to make my program work with either VFP database or SQL Server database with a "switch". I think in the end I will still have one application but "logically" (as you put it) having UI tier and BIZ tier.
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>>Right now I am collecting ideas and suggestions to incorporate them in my design.
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>>Thank you for your input.
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