>I've used ADO for quite awhile. But this does'nt require conversion to ADO from a cursor and to a cursor from ADO, when dealing with single records. I think it could be useful when a (non-n-tier) program written in VFP wants to use COM for desktop apps. I have already written a DLL which allows reocrd by record navigation in a Form while requesting the data from the DLL.
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>I don't mean to imply that this object replaces ADO/RDS/XML. But it does have some use in COM based desktop development. Since buffering was provdied as an option in FP I haven't looked at SCATTER. Plus I just think its cool.

I didn't mean to detract from the cool factor. Anything that makes manipulation of data easier, with less code, is by definition cool. <g> I've been playing with ADO for awhile as it relates to web pages and in many ways, we definitly have more cool commands within FoxPro and I hope Microsoft continues to surprise us with new ones. A native FoxPro recordset object should definitly be on that wish list, on the other hand, maybe it would be possible to create one with what we have? Hmmm... Guess I have something to play with tonight.

Mike