Cetin & Sergey,

Thanks for your quick responses to my posting.

I did not make this very clear. I have been experimenting on a WinME system to see what is and is not available on that version of Windows.

When I create the UDL, in fact, most OLE DB data source types are available. Not VFPOLEDB, but I guess we knew that didn't get installed with MDAC.

My confusion occurred when I tried creating a UDL file to use OLE DB for ODBC sources to connect to an Excel DB that I have, and then tried to use that UDL in Excel 2000. Appears that Excel 2000 doesn't know anything about UDL files.

This was just a test to help me understand how UDL files might work in WinME and nothing that I actually ultimately intend to do. What I do intend is to have my C++ program running on this WinME system to use a UDL file to will link to a VFP DB. For that I will need to separately install the VFPOLEDB software.

Again thanks for your advice.

Jim