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>VFPCOM can convert both ways - two methods, one goes rs->cursor, the other cursor->rs. AFAIK, though, there's no way to create an RS directly within VFP; you might want to look at John Petersen's Whitepaper on VFP and ADO. XML might be a better way to approach the problem.

In VFP, the only way you can do a query and have it go directly to an ADO record set is to access the data via ADO in the first place, but this isn't different than any other language or data source.