The UDL is just a text file of specific format that stores a connection parameters. You can store those parameters in a configuration file in your application. Why add one more external factor that could make your application misbehave or blow up?

>I got a (UDL) file called: myconnect.udl in a folder of my pc..
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>My question is:
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>How can I open and use it from VFP?, and then...what to access data?
>Till now I used pass-trough sintax, but it seems using udl´s file more versatile..since you could chance the linked database in a file without changing the code..(or anything in any place)
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