Very interesting. But bare with me for a second. I can set break points in my classes but where would I set a break point within the framework to see what command is actually being sent to vfpoledb.

Neil

>Hello Neil,
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>While it's entirely possible Paul is correct, you may want to verify this is the case by setting a breakpoint just before the "magic" happens in the framework code and look at the statement .NET is sending to VFP for update.
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>Then, I would suggest running that exact command in VFP's command window and see what it does. You'll probably (or maybe "hopefully") get much better error information other than the woefully generic "syntax error" message.
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>Hope that gets you on the right track,
>---J
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>>So how then will I be able to keep my vfp back end wired into my mm.net application and maintain the bizobj/customdataclass pattern of design. It is so cool to issue this.save(....) at the webform level and have all of the backends updated.
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>>Neil