I noticed some strange behavior on a form that I had already created that WAS working fine and then when I went to run it yesterday its not working properly. The one thing I noticed was that the Business objects that I had created on this form (or any form after i had done a little investigation) weren't showing up in the datasources property anymore. The screen shot below will illustrate that.



Any ideas why this is happening?

Ivan,

The reason you got this message is because the form you dropped the business object on is not inherited from MicroFour.StrataFrame.UI.Windows.BaseForm or MicroFour.StrataFrame.UI.Windows.UserControl.  The BaseForm is the root of all StrataFrame forms.  Both the BaseForm and UserControl have an interface called IContainerControl that has methods and properties that allow a parent container control, such as a form or user control, to have business objects dropped on them and then to know exactly how to manage those instances (Form Saves, Undos, etc.).

Bottom line, to resolve your error, just base your form off of something like:

MicroFour.StrataFrame.UI.Windows.Forms.StandardForm

Hope this makes sense

I dropped it in an xtraReports layout, in the report designer.

It was only a test, anyway. I don't think this is going to be the best practice to build reports. I have a feeling that the temp BO I heard from you in another thread will do it better. I'm now wondering where I will put the code to populate this "cursor", and them, how to bind these fields into xtraReports controls.

Fun, fun, fun ...