Why use a General field? I would use a Blob (in VFP 9) or a binary memo in anything before. General fields don't really provide any useful behavior that you can't duplicate with a few lines of code (other than reporting maybe).

+++ Rick ---

>Hi All,
>
>I want to store files posted on .aspx web page to a field of GENERAL type in VFP table.
>
>I have no problem reading the posted file to an array of bytes, then creating an OleDbAdapter, creating and populating new DataRow, adding it to a DataTable object and so on:
>

>Dim f As HttpPostedFile = ...
>Dim arr(f.ContentLength) As Byte
>Dim s As System.IO.Stream = f.InputStream
>s.Read(arr, 0, filelen)
>...
>r("binarydata") = arr
>tbl.Rows.Add(r)
>...
>DBAdapter.Update(dbset, "AnyName")
>

>Here it comes:
>Exception Details: System.Data.OleDb.OleDbException: Field BINARYDATA does not accept null values.
>
>
>What is wrong with my code? I don't really want to go through creating a temporary file and then reading it to a general field.
>
>System.Text.Encoding.UTF8 didn't help either...
>
>Thanks!