>>Everything looks good, but this approach has one BIG disadvantage. You must OPEN the table before you instantiate CA.
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>Hi Borislav,
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>Thank you for your feedback. Whether this is a BIG disadvantage or not a disadvantage at all, everyone should decide for himself. The answer to the question - IT CAN BE DONE.
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>Thanks,
>Aleksey.

There is almost nothing that can't be done with VFP :-)
But when you on the way to convert your application from VFP NATIVE database to some other back end, I don't think that opening the table before invoke CA CursorFill() method is the way to go. This is just my opinion of course.