>I'm current working on a ASP.NET application that uses a VFP 9 database as the backend. I also need to access data from a VFP 6 database. Unfortunately, I cannot upgrade the VFP 6 database, because the application that it's used for does not support VFP 9.
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>I have a couple of questions about this cross version data access.
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>1) Can I use the VFP 9 OLEDB provider to read data from the VFP 6 database or would I have to stick with ODBC?

Yes, you can.

>2) Can I use VFP 6 to insert records directly (using native VFP code rather than via ODBC or OLEDB) into the VFP 9 tables without messing it up?

It depends on what kind of VFP9 tables we're talking about. If VFP9 tables use any new data features introduced after VFP6 ( like AutoInc fields, varchar fields, e.t.c. ) than you wouldn't be able to open such tables in VFP6.