Yes, .NET can read from .dbf files. I'm not sure about table/record locking.

>Hi! I love this forum and I missed plugging in for quite some time.
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>I need to rewrite an existing VFP application using .net (either C# or VB). This application shares table files with another VFP 6 application, which is a third-party application (ABRAWin). ABRAWin does not use a database container and so far my application has been accessing the table files as free tables, too. Both applications use VFP's native database engine only. Question is would I be able to convert my app to .net and still share the table files with ABRAWin?
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>I am not familiar with .net. Any good advice will be appreciated.
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>Evelyn