What does it matter where it came from?

I helped Gene Goldhammer scope out and write the spec for CursorAdaptors and I can tell you with full knowledge that the intent was not related to .Net at all. Neither do I recall evil .Net folks peering over Gene's shoulder.

The real intent was to introduce to VFP a data translation layer to make it easier for developers to write code that could work with native data, SQL, or whatever with minimal code changes as the background data changed. Nothing more, nothing less.

You know the phrase "GMTA"? Great Minds Think Alike? Independently, talented teams will arrive at a common solution to a common problem. It's the way of the world.

Ken and Alan's responses herein are dead-on.

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>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!
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>Harold Chattaway