>>>Sorry, nothing similar in dotNet. That's one of many reasons why so many has decided that VFP will remain their primary tool for a lot of years to come. DotNet and data crunching, forget it, or use SQL as backend.
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>>Au contraire. I was shocked to discover that data access using .NET with OLEDB accessing VFP tables, was about as fast as using VFP to access those tables.
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>May very well be, but what about cursors? There's nothing even similar in DotNet. And by similar, I mean like Budweiser and Heineken, not like Budweiser and heroin, or cursors and ADO.net.

I hear ya, a cursor (really a virtual table) is easy and powerful to work with. I find though with n-tier apps, I'm passing around small datasets or having SQL Server do the heavy lifting and sending back an dataset that is in the format I need.