Malcom:

From what you are saying, it sounds like you are using vfp on the presentation layer as well. If this is what you want to do, you'll have to pass a recordset, because you can't pass a cursor through COM, then on the client convert it to a cursor and bind it to a grid.

Unless you are building a distributed application it makes no sense to move to three tiers. Just do a traditional 2-tiered client server with VFP and SQL server.

Charlie