Interestingly what you can find when you made a search.
I found Claudio Lassala's article on what's new in VFP8 when I tried to search on your problem (it doesn't deal with the creation of the cursor problem), but then just decided to read up some articles in CoDE.
This article is quite interesting
http://www.code-magazine.com/Article.aspx?quickid=070183
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