>Howdy all,
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>Is there any sample applications or known coding to pull stock data via a vfp application (desktop ) from google finance ?

Check their API (which I didn't do in the case of the google for quite a while but) - most of such services operate via simple https. The general scenario goes like this:
- you prepare a https call with the url consisting of whatever they say. The parameters thereof usually indicate the action/function you want to call, the ID of the entity on which you query, other case specific parameters, your user ID, timestamp (usually an unix timestamp number, which is datetime()-{^1970-01-01 0:0:0}) and then you save the whole thing into a variable
- you calculate a checksum of that variable plus your password, usually an MD5 checksum, but I've seen others
- the query you send may be completely in the url, or you may need to send it as data, usually xml or json
- you do a httpGetEx() with it, and it returns a string
- the string may be xml or json, containing your data. Use something to unpack that into some format you can use in VFP. I'm using nfjsonread by Marco Plaza for what little I do (get my website stats from StatCounter).
For hash/checksum, where MD5 was needed I found code on the old fox wiki; for SHA, at http://www.sweetpotatosoftware.com/blog/index.php/2005/09/01/visual-foxpro-encrypt-and-decrypt-files/