So not everything is perfect :)

WinDev can access xBase files, including VFP DBF/CDX files but I have come across a problem. If you use WinDev's native access (i.e. the access option built into and part of WinDev itself) then it does not read the memo fields correctly; two problems (1) it only reads the first 32kb of the memo field, and (2) it wont read binary memo fields because it hits some control characters.

I have emailed their support and looked at various options and the bottom line after several discussion is they are not going to upgrade/fix their native access driver for DBF/CDX as they have very little demand for xBase support. However, the solution is to use the VFPOLEDB Provider and that works perfectly and reads all field types without a hitch. However, that also has a small problem - the VFPOLEDB Provider is 32 bit and will not run from a 64 bit compiled WinDev application. So you have to compile as a WinDev 32 bit app in order to use it.

Not a train smash for us as we only need this reading-functionality in order to move data over to WinDev's own HyperFile database which is far more powerful than VFP.

Just an fyi.