>I have been out of the VFP world for awhile...and now I have reason to look at VFP 9. I've been using ASP.NET for development for the past couple of years. Now that I am looking at VFP9, it's the first time Iam seeing CursorAdapters. This is the same thing as the new ObjectDataSource that is in ASP.NET 2.0! The features and capabilities are exactly the same! I know that the .NET ADO engine is the VFP engine, written by VFP developers, but to see how similiar other things are is pretty amazing.
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>If only .NET developers knew where it came from!

Hey Harold. Just to clarify some history, ADO (not ADO.NET) was based on the VFP data engine with former VFP team developers working on it. ADO.NET is not based on any VFP code base, it was built from scratch based on a variety of technologies. The VFP 8.0 CursorAdapter class was based on ADO.NET (not source code, but in design). So the 'leveraging' evolution went from VFP 5.0 to ADO to ADO.NET to VFP 8.0. Next (upcoming) is all the new data technologies like LINQ in .NET Framework 3.0 where many things are based on reviewing VFP and other including SQL SELECT native to the language.