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.NET front end, VFP back end
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Visual FoxPro and .NET
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP1
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01217638
Message ID:
01218070
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>Alejandro,
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>I had to do this a little while back (use the VFP provider) - it was a royal pain, and I was not happy with the results and the workarounds I had to do.
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>As firmly as I can possibly say this....
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>DO NOT DO THIS!!!!!
>
>This is not a fox-bashing post, as I think VFP9 is a great product for use with other back-ends. But the provider for VFP9 is just not a prime-time-player. If you only needed to use it for a few query/batch jobs, I'd say maybe...but for an application, no way. So don't do it.

Hi Kevin. Strangely I found the OLEDB provider more stable than calling VFP COM components from .NET. I had expected the reverse.
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