>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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Not only that, but ADO 1.0 was released sometime last year, after VFP 5.0 was released, so even if there was a desire to include documentation on ADO in VFP 5.0, the timing prevented that. FWIW, VB 5.0 doesn't have any inherent ADO documentation, either, and it was released almost at the same time as ADO.