I would assume for the same reason that very few external objects have any sort of "help" reference in VFP....an ADO recordset is like any other external object so why expect any sort of documentation *within* VFP?
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>>By the way, I looked up ADO in VFP 5.x Help and came up dry. I wonder why???
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