OK, I'm going to have to disagree here based on my little experience with C#. I've started working with these objects and while it is not as native to me as local cursors, they are not a pain in the a$$ as you say. I haven't done any real speed tests to determine if manipulating data via objects is that much more cumbersome, but so far so good. I haven't seen any real degredation. The biggest stumbling block is my inexperience. I have to look everything up and search for examples while I can work with data in VFP practically with my eyes closed because I've been using VFP since the mid 80s. When I want to do something in VFP, I can immediately think (in most cases) of 3-4 ways of accomplishing it. In dotnet, due solely to my inexperience, I have to research how to do it and then test each option to determine which one suits my needs best.




>>I am not saying this to promote datasets (or debunk them) but they are objects, aren't they? If you populate a dataset there are lots of built-in methods to operate on it.
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>Yes. And what a pain in the a$$ compared to using a cursor in VFP.