>>Jim, I greatly appreciate this reply. It confirms that business objects use unbound controls (we had many UT discussions about bound and unbound approaches).
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>Ed,
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>Well one design approach does it this way (mine) :-).
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>I actually have two framework models that I use, one if pure VFP and uses DE's controlsources and so forth. The other is N-Tier where I build teh UI, the middle tier objects, and the data store as separate entitites which can be mixed and matched at will.
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>The chice of which model to use is purely based on the requirements of the project. I find that the pure VFP with data binding is simpler and easier to maintain and write, but the N-Tier model is much more flexible and scalable allowing a wide variety of front ends and backends to be integrated easily.
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>If the project needs the flexibility and scalability then I use the N-Tier model. If it is a simple pure VFP solution then I use the pure FP model.

I like flexible solution so much that always use it (I don't daresay that it includes real business objects).