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Middle-tier and ADO gets a big "Here here!!!" from you. So you don't really care that you effectively lose the VFP native D/B speed in using such. Nor the fact that VFP databases/tables are at best, at least as at right now, supported only by the ODBC portion of ADO.
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Hey Jim,

Actually I do care. My point (if I even have one), is that I am not large enough nor strong enough to stem the tide toward n-tier client/server solutions (ones using a sql database for the data store). As an xBase programmer since the dBaseII days, I am happy to see that at least VFP "might" have a chance to survive in this "new world order".

At my "day" job, my four and a half year very successful application, which is part of the company's bread and butter product, is begin replaced by a "client/server" (sql server) application. If this other team is successful, which I doubt - they have been working on client/server for over 2 yrs - still no real product - its all fluf so far, they will put me and my two staff members out of work! It is a full time job as a development manager to continually show and prove to the company that FoxPro is still a viable tool to use. The tide is turning and I can't stop it. But, I hope VFP can still play a part!

Thanks
Dean