You can't send a VFP cursor across process boundaries or to another application without converting it to something else.

>This article was written prior to .NET release and explains the option awailable then.
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>But a very strong point I noticed is the speed of data exchange. XML may be slower than sending a cursor (.DBF) as a disconnected recordset. The reason being: -
>1) it incurs overhead of conversion to a recordset on server as well as the client.
>2) it is bloated because of the tags all over the XML.
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>So if you develop Server & Client side components yourself & don't need interoperatability with other applications then you could avoid using XML.
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>Thanks for the info.!