"Since the record has been found, why?" You mean "Why hit previous/next" possibly after I have edited and saved? To go to th enext record. Anyway, that is what users do, don't they? ;)

Well, it is a commercial app, so I'd rather not do anything dangerous ;) I have been banging my head against the limitations of Crystal Reports for the last 10 years ;) And we do some pretty cool stuff, manipulating the innards of the reports ar runtime, using the CR apis. The New CR apis are all COM anyway so I had to learn those. I found a good, two-part article on COM here and I am currently reading it. It might be that implementing a small COM server in my app might be worth the peace of mind here. App and report will always be on the same machine so.. Also, COM feels quite logical as it is just a (synchronous) function call.

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There's not much to learn, except that the IDE itself is very different. The compiler is significantly more C++ compliant, so if your old code is not standards compliant, you could have some issues at first, until you fix it. Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog "I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )

OK. Thanks. I will try that approach and have some users betatest it.