Hi Joel

Can I use XML to save locally our products table ( > 50000, truck parts), or our customers table ( > 2000) ? Can I use XML for fast incremental searching on local data? Can I join local data with data retrieved from server in cursors?

Using this approach, the app I work on now simply "fly" over a DSL connection.

There is nothing wrong with having local data and quick acces to it, look at the way IE implements internet files and content cache.

Dorin

>Hi Walter,
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>Some have suggested using XML as the local data engine for meta data in .NET. Definitely not as good as VFP's local engine, but it can be used to eliminate calls to the server when you want to keep the data local.
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