A recordset is not a VFP object. It's a COM object. You can convert it to a cursor, but then you're restricted to the limitations of a cursor.

You can bind a VFP to the field number, something like oRS.Fields[3]

>Craig
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>I may be missing something obvious, but, why isn't that recordset in an obvious VFP cursor format, i.e. it can be browsed etc - it would appear that I have to progmatically walk through the recordset to view the data?
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>For example, how would you tie a recordset field to a specific field on a VFP form using myobject.datasource property?
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>Regards